Im Too Busy

But even if flying remains a joy, we dont fly enough, do we? Id like to log a few hours every week. Nearly all of my flying is purposeful; I travel by my own airplane because I have places to go. I log around 100 to 120 hours a year now, but it comes in bunches separated by breaks of a month or two where I never just go flying, and dont even visit the hangar … because Im too busy.

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Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Many pilots, despite their passion and the "triple win" benefits of regular flying (enjoyment, aircraft health, proficiency), find themselves too busy to fly frequently due to the demands of modern life.
The author, a self-described Type A pilot, admits to this struggle, logging flying hours in bursts but often neglecting it for weeks due to other commitments.
Resolving to fly more is ineffective; the author proposes that actively prioritizing flying daily on one's to-do list might be the key to overcoming the "too busy" excuse.

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Modern life, it seems, is saturated with … everything. I tend to be one of those people who is deadline driven anyway, so most everything I do seems to get done right at the last minute—or not quite.

Pilots by and large are Type A personalities. We pretty much have to be so that we can take charge of our destiny in flight and not become a victim of what the universe throws at us. We Type A folks tend to take on too much, do it perhaps obsessively, and then move on to the next challenge. Repeat.