I've just been updating my flight logbook (it's an excel spreadsheet these days) and noticed that I have spent over 500 hours paragliding! Woohoo!! I remember reading some articles about skill level and time spent doing an activity - a rule-of-thumb number I came across several times was that people approach 'master-craftsman' level sometime after 10,000 hrs... Which echo's my feeling of - there's still heaps and heaps to learn!
One advantage of the excel logbook is it can be stored online (google documents, hotmail skydrive, etc), another is that with a little organisation it's easy to pull various statistics out of it. A good winter time-waster....
Some of the numbers that I thought were interesting were:
30hrs of sleddies!
Less than 30hrs of coastal flying (novice!)
Very similar amount of time spent flying sport (free) tandems to instructional (paying) tandems.
While less than 20% of my flights have been xc flights, over 60% of my airtime has been flying xc - more than 3,200km of xc km's flown.
The photo was taken a few days ago at The Pines - a great ridge soaring site (especially in a SSE - which it was the other day!) & also a good thermic site (I flew my first 100km's from here in 2007). It's apparently the rim of an extinct volcano.
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Congratulations on you passing the 500 hrs mark Bill. You are always my flying idol! Every time I looked at your flying photos, I thought to myself 'hmm, I'm gonna fly there one day!' Shame I haven't flown a tandem with you yet. Oh interesting stats with your log. Keep up the good flying and good photos!
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