Ron,

That gives an interesting picture, but you should remember that you must
either file IFR or request flight following to show up on flight aware.  I
don’t think many experimental pilots do that.  I would probably estimate
that at any given time that 90%+ of the experimental planes aloft will not
show up.


Bill B


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From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Ron
Laughlin
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:51 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Certified vs Experimental Flight Hours

Hmmm, You might want to check FlightAware's website from time to time
and see how many experimentals are in the system at any given time. I
find only 2 Glassairs and one Lancair at the moment. There are a bunch
of certifieds (62 Cirrus's and 51 SkyHawks, etc.).

<http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/>

Ron



On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Ted Noel <tednoel@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Interesting observation, but not adjusted for age. Experimentals are
> generally newer than production A/C, and those thousands of hours
represent
> how many last year???? It's possible for both observations to be true.
>
> Ted Noel
> N540TF
>
> On 7/13/2011 8:19 AM, rwolf99@aol.com wrote:
>
> Randy writes:
>
> <<I believe there are more flight hours per plane for experimentals that
> certifieds...>>
>
> I don't see how that could be.  One year at Oshkosh there was a special
> display area for homebuilts with over 1000 hours.  There were just a
> handful.  Bill Hannahan's Lancair was one of them.  On the other side of
the
> runway were thousands of spam-cans, all certified.  I'll bet that none had
> less than 1000 hours, and most had more than 2000 hours.
>
> Further, every experimental for sale in Trade-a-Plane or ASO.com seems to
> have between 100 and maybe 500 hours.  Virtually all spam cans have
> thousands.
>
> As to the real question -- do homebuilt owners fly their airplanes more
> hours per year than spam can owners -- I have no idea.
>
> - Rob Wolf
>
> p.s.  I do not use the term "spam can" as pejorative.  I used to own one
and
> had a lot of fun with it.
>
>
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