I just coded up a grouping option "Day of year" for the Analysis section on the website. It uses 366 days (so that you can capture how much flying you do on leap-day), but the google chart doesn't quite like 366 data points - it looks like it cuts off at about the end of November. But you can view the entire table (or better, download to a spreadsheet), so if you want to know, say, how much solo time you have on New Years Day in Piper Cherokee's, you can easily figure that out. I'll be taking this live, probably tomorrow.
Fantastic! I'll be looking forward to testing it out first thing in the morning, from bed, next to my long-suffering wife.
Well now I wish I had taken the time to put every training flight into mfb instead of grouping them. Guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow
Functionality is live now. Again, the graph only handles about 330 elements, but the entire 366 data set is available onscreen and for download into a spreadsheet. So if you want to see the days on which you flew solo, or gave instruction, or flew at night, you can do that.
I did the exercise and not only have I never flown on Christmas, I’ve managed to get out of flying Christmas Eve as well. While I have flown every other day, it surprised me that a couple of random days in April eluded me for years.
I like it! Another fun thing to pull out "fascinating" little tidbits from. For example, my least flown day of the year is Jan 2, which makes sense because that's the day I had to add this year. So, one flight of 0.4. There are 3 others with less than 1.0 logged, all of which make sense - Christmas, Halloween, and February 29th. The day with the most logged hours? August 23. Four of the top ten are in August, with the other 6 spread throughout the year. My top three days of landings are March 29, March 28, and March 30, with 39, 36, and 34. I looked and found out why - one year it was just a couple of weeks before my Private checkride, so I was doing a lot of brush-up, and the next year I got my tailwheel endorsement on those days. If I'd been religious about logging approaches in MFB that would be an interesting column to look at too (to see if there's a seasonal correlation), but my logging of those (in MFB) up until a few years ago is pretty inconsistent.
I have only been flying on 167 unique days. The day with the most flying is December 21 with 18.5 hours logged over the years. In 2021 I flew 6 hours taking someone down to Houston for LifeLine (and my first time landing at an airport as busy as Hobby). In 2020 I did 5.3 flying 9 dogs in awful turbulence. This is the flight that helped me clarify my personal wind gust minimums (maximums really) and my first flight experiencing LLWS. In 2016 I flew 7.2 to pick up a dog in Nashville and fly them to Indianapolis. That was my one and only time flying into Tune and the relay pilot I met there ended up being the guy that flew out into the Gulf of Mexico unconscious and crashed back in 17 or 18?? It's amazing how many memories logbooks bring back.
