Last 5 Flights

How Many Passengers (average, rounded down) were onboard your last 5 private flights

  • 0

    Votes: 44 32.6%

  • 1

    Votes: 66 48.9%

  • 2

    Votes: 15 11.1%

  • 3

    Votes: 7 5.2%

  • more than 3

    Votes: 3 2.2%
  • Total voters
    135
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I am curious how many passengers you had on board your aircraft for your last 5 private flights (non-commercial).
 
My number was somewhat skewed because I took my wife and my two granddaughters out for lunch. My granddaughters are 2.5 and it was their first flight. They keep asking about flying again but my plane been in the paint shop for the last month and will be there for another month or two.
 
jtheune said:
My number was somewhat skewed because I took my wife and my two granddaughters out for lunch. My granddaughters are 2.5 and it was their first flight. They keep asking about flying again but my plane been in the paint shop for the last month and will be there for another month or two.
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Does it take that long to get a plane painted? Geesh.
 
if we're going somewhere it's almost always the whole family. Our kids are too young to opt out of family trips.
 
I've had 1 passenger on my last 2 flights, and 0 on the previous three. I guess that makes my average of 5 flights 0.
 
Well, counting backwards... it was plane ride time over Thanksgiving weekend with the relatives, so I had my nephew and niece up in the Branson area over Hollister, MO for 2 flights, the flight before that was a semi-formation flight back to my home base from Lincoln, IL, but the flight before that, I had one passenger, a pilot friend I took to pick up his airplane at his mechanic's after a pre-buy fell through, and the flight before THAT was an SMBC breakfast club flight with the husband. Does he count as a passenger?? (He is also a pilot, but if I were to show you a photo of my airplane, you would realize that it's my airplane and I do most of the flying.) So, 4 passengers if you include the husband in the last 5 flights. :D
 
flygirl34q said:
Well, counting backwards... it was plane ride time over Thanksgiving weekend with the relatives, so I had my nephew and niece up in the Branson area over Hollister, MO for 2 flights, the flight before that was a semi-formation flight back to my home base from Lincoln, IL, but the flight before that, I had one passenger, a pilot friend I took to pick up his airplane at his mechanic's after a pre-buy fell through, and the flight before THAT was an SMBC breakfast club flight with the husband. Does he count as a passenger?? (He is also a pilot, but if I were to show you a photo of my airplane, you would realize that it's my airplane and I do most of the flying.) So, 4 passengers if you include the husband in the last 5 flights. :D
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So, what is that, 0.8 passengers per flight and he said to round down, so I guess you would answer 0. ;)
 
It is a single seat airplane. Can I count the two guys in the glider 200ft behind me? At least for the takeoff and climbout, they found thier own way back.

Oh, I did 13 of those last Saturday, but some of those were single sat too.
 
I'm definitely at 0. Been doing a lot of solo flying and really enjoying it! Probably going to start asking more people to come along but being alone in an airplane is so great.
 
0 because everyone is too much of a wuss to fly with me.

Just kidding. They aren't wusses. I just haven't gotten a good chance to take someone up.
 
It's hard to take more than 1 up in a 150...
I always try to bring a gas stooge though, and they're more than willing to pay ~$15/hr for as much stick time as they can handle.
 
Well, if I count the CFII as a passenger... 3/5 rounds up to 1, down to 0. If I don't count the CFII, 1/5 rounds to 0 anyway you look at it (normal rounding or rounding down).
 
BillTIZ said:
It is a single seat airplane. Can I count the two guys in the glider 200ft behind me? At least for the takeoff and climbout, they found thier own way back.

Oh, I did 13 of those last Saturday, but some of those were single sat too.
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I think you have to count all bodies you take aloft, whether or not they return with you.
 
Ghery said:
Well, if I count the CFII as a passenger... 3/5 rounds up to 1, down to 0. If I don't count the CFII, 1/5 rounds to 0 anyway you look at it (normal rounding or rounding down).
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The OP got his terminology wrong. "Rounding" has a formal mathematical definition. "Rounding down" has no formal mathematical definition that I am aware of. Rounding means to produce the nearest integer. That process yields a unique value for all fractions except N + 0.5, where N is any integer. At N + 0.5 the convention has been adopted to select the largest nearest integer (N + 1). So 3.5 rounds to 4, while 3.4999 rounds to 3.

One might use the phrase "round down" to identify the process of rounding the midpoint value (N + 0.5) to N rather than (N + 1). But one might also use the phrase as a synonym for truncating the number to the nearest integer (N + fraction) becomes N. In the first meaning 3.4999, 3.5, and 3.51 round to 3, 4, and 4; while in the second meaning they all "round down" to 3.

(I'm available for pedantry like the above at affordable values of $N.)
 
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On average it would be less than 1 but greater than zero with 4 flights solo and one full with 5 S.O.B.
 
Jim Logajan said:
The OP got his terminology wrong. "Rounding" has a formal mathematical definition. "Rounding down" has no formal mathematical definition that I am aware of. Rounding means to produce the nearest integer. That process yields a unique value for all fractions except N + 0.5, where N is any integer. At N + 0.5 the convention has been adopted to select the largest nearest integer (N + 1). So 3.5 rounds to 4, while 3.4999 rounds to 3.

One might use the phrase "round down" to identify the process of rounding the midpoint value (N + 0.5) to N rather than (N + 1). But one might also use the phrase as a synonym for truncating the number to the nearest integer (N + fraction) becomes N. In the first meaning 3.4999, 3.5, and 3.51 round to 3, 4, and 4; while in the second meaning they all "round down" to 3.

(I'm available for pedantry like the above at affordable values of $N.)
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While you may be technically correct :dunno: I think my point was understood; there are some other terms I could have also used to convey my message. Would you have preferred:

Assume N=number of passengers over your last 5 flights then

1. Truncate N/5
2. Floor(N)
3. N/5 - ( N/5 mod 1 )

I'm sure there are plenty of other possibilities. :)
 
hmm...2, 1, 2, 1, 1 = 1.4/flight
 
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Henning said:
True, but where I was up on the North Slope, there are no tourists, just ugly dudes.:rofl:
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Hmmm... I always hear all this crap about how beautiful the scenery is up in Alaska, but from your account, it doesn't seem worth the trip to me!;)
 
Dav8or said:
Hmmm... I always hear all this crap about how beautiful the scenery is up in Alaska, but from your account, it doesn't seem worth the trip to me!;)
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The oilfield looks the same no matter where in the world, a bunch of ugly dudes....:rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
Would have been better to ask how many "passenger-trips" in the last five flights. So, 2/1/0/1/0 would be "4".
 
Henning said:
The oilfield looks the same no matter where in the world, a bunch of ugly dudes....:rofl::rofl::rofl:
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This is probably true. I've spent some time in the oil fields in Bakersfield, CA and it's not pretty. Either the field, or the dudes. On the other hand, I'm not a connoisseur of dudes, so I may not know what I'm talking about.:D
 
I always try to take a deserving passenger or more, if it's convenient for all.
 
I like owning my own plane, however 95% of the time I fly company planes, and when I do go up in mine, despite burning a true 4 seater amount of fuel, I only tend to take one person with me.

Maybe I should have just got a champ or cub instead lol
 
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