Flight Hours Log

I don't know exactly how many flight hours I have. Not long after I got to the 747, I stopped logging time in a personal logbook. By that time I had filled eleven logbooks and had just started the twelfth. The last page total on that last logbook shows 8,482.6 hours. Since there was no regulatory requirement for a pilot to keep a personal log when the airline they're flying for was doing that, lazy man that I am, I quit logging.

I'm sure I flew at least 12,000 hours, possibly as high as 13,000. A few years ago, I began wondering what the real figure is enough that I started a project to post all the flights to this page. Common sense would have been to start with the 8,482.6 and enter from there. However, obsessed with order as I am, I started from scratch. I'm still reasonable at preparing to do things, but pretty poor at actually doing them, and this project was no exception. Life has become a contest between my doing what I want and my lack of energy, failing health, and diminishing cognitive ability. In other words, welcome to old age.

I was entering the data from my logbooks and was planning on using the flight time records supplied by my employers, which I had kept. Unfortunately all logbooks and employer records were destroyed on Sep 8, 2020 in a wildfire that burnt our home and hundreds of others along a 30 mile stretch or Oregon's McKenzie River valley. Thus this log of the first three hundred hours (almost) is the only surviving record of my flight time.

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