A minor milestone

I passed 300 hours today, which is a pitifully small number when you consider I've had my license for almost 14 years. Of course, for 10 of those years I didn't fly at all, so I guess it's not quite as bad as it sounds.

Ninety of those 300 hours came in the past 12 months. I didn't realize until I added it up that I'd been flying that much. Doing an instrument rating and the commercial back-to-back has a way of piling on the hours.

I passed the mark in a somewhat ratty Cessna 172 bouncing along looking at the scenery and not paying much attention to anything.

Given that I have 233 hours in Cessna 172s, most of which were spent bouncing along looking at the scenery and not paying much attention to anything it was only fitting.

I remember as a student being in awe of pilots with 300 hours and wondering how I'd ever be able to accumulate so much time. Turns out, it's not hard at all. Just keep writing checks.

Hopefully that'll change soon and folks will start writing me checks to fly.