Awesome. I love it. Wish I would have found it earlier when I had more info on some of my older flights. (or still had a memory left)

^^^

Safe travels.

Tim

I saw all the new statistics and felt like I did when climbing the rope in gym class.

I'm definitely in. ^

I activated my premium account last night and it is awesome! You get flight data by mileage, not just # of flights. They have also enabled the PDF feature on the English site. There is a place to compare your stats against other FM users. (Top 1%, thank you very much:cool:) The world map now has a zoom feature, and I would like to see the US have a zoom as well. Maybe have 5-6 regions of the US. I am doubly giddy about this. $35 is a bargain. ^

I've only now discovered this and entered data for a few flights. It's going to take a while, and the statistics should be interesting in the end...

BUT...don't at least some of you find the flight time (not counting hours in layovers!) in hours, days, months, and years just a little depressing? Really makes you realize how much of your life is being spent in airplanes. :( On the other, I suppose it provides further justification for upgrading. ;):(

A little. I've spent two months of my life on an airplane. :(

I've been averaging 2.5 hrs/day on airplanes for the last few years, but it feels like much much more.

Since most of my flying is domestic, it would be nice to see the rankings domestically and internationally (as separate categories). I can't compete with some of you guys flying internationally. :o

I am registered on this site as a premium member and enjoy the functionality. I rank number 74 for total flights only because I've kept accurate records ever since I started flying in 1971, and was therefore able to enter over 35 years of data.

my.flightmemory.com/dlfan

Impressive! And congratulations on your forthcoming 1,000th flight :)

Very impressive. ^ When I was doing my flights, I had to go off of memory before 2000, but remembered my flight in 1969 to my grandparents' house SAN-OAK on PSA. :p I flew alone at 4 years old. :eek: (My mom knew the pilot, so I was well taken care of. ;))

Very impressive! ^

I'm surprised, though, that 1.38 million miles ranks as high as #74 with 23,000+ users.

-FlyerBeek

Well, you can of course enter just any flight you want to, they even offer a "virtual mode". Thus I am not sure how many of these 73 ranking higher than him have actually flown their mileage. ;)

Ditto.

But if I have premium access and you have premium access I still cannot zoom your map and you can't zoom mine..

That'd be nice so I could read them....:)

Codeshares?
 

So what are peeople entering in for code shares? the operating airline or the flight number and airline on the BP?

Perhaps they could add a field for "operating airline"

I use the operating airline - with a separate listing for each Express carrier, like "United Express/SkyWest" and "US Airways Express/Piedmont."

flightmemory distances not exactly great circle
 

Has anyone else noticed the small discrepancy in flightmemory's distances verses the actual great circle distance?

For example, east-west flights tend to get shortchanged a couple of miles on flightmemory while north-south flights are calculated as a few too many miles.

-FlyerBeek

It looks like the statistics map now makes your top ten routes bold lines.

Is there somewhere on the flightmemory.com site where it lists the top flyers?

I have, and IIRC tfung has also - so that makes at least 2 of those 73.

I am only # 2475 :( .... (http://meine.flugstatistik.de/FLYGVA)

I agree, it's a nice tool. Im am surprised to see, that I have been on the same flights with other people using flightmemory or flugstatistik.

And looking on the handles there (e.g. who is online), you see some well know flyertalkers as well. Well worth the night long date entering procedure, but at leat I have keeped record of all my flights and even have 90% of the boarding passes, so it was not that difficult. SIngned up for a premium account to support them and did not regret it. I was among the first who signed up for a premium account and they have been really fast, also in answering mails.

I have had a few email exchanges with them, and it's safe to say that there are quite a few pilots that use flightmemory who are in the top 50.....

the virtual mode is probably for people who like to play flightsim or something.. but I can't seem to fathom why they would spend the time to put their data into flightmemory.. unless they are really really bored... haha...

I actually only put the my flight data from 2000 onwards... I have a bit more before that, but I am hoping when I get to 2010, I will use that map service, and do a poster of my 10 years of flying 2000-2010 and see how crazy it is... :p

Looks like you will hit 2m flown miles soon tfung.

My advantage was keeping records of every flight I've taken since the early 70's. I'm sure had others kept records to document their flights, my stats would pale in comparison. I also expect to fall in the overall standings as more FlyerTalkers discover Flight Memory (BTW, I'm at #78 now). :)

To answer the other question, there is a place to click for a comparison of how you stand among other Flight Memory users. The premium service provides access to a slightly expanded set of stats. All in all, I agree with the others who said that the premium service was $35 well spent.

Today I discovered that while I've flown DEN-ONT five times, I have never flown ONT-DEN.

I wonder if they'll charge you extra for your map because you'll use up all their ink... :D

Nah - they can save money by handing a sheet that is totally filled in ie blank.

Is there any free way to enter all of your flights in on one page? versus having to click through two pages for each flight?

For a fee you can load them through a spreadsheet.

This was fun.:D
Sure is going to keep me busy punching in all the data. Gonna need help from my dad for the ones back in 1979, 1982......:rolleyes:

Come join the fun!

I'm about half way through entering 25 years of FF statements and now in the top 1% of miles, routes, segments.

I see that somebody claims to have flown over 400 different airlines. Maybe virtual?

The #1 in miles is over 7 million. Maybe a pilot?

I'm 354th in distance, and 270th in number of flights. I'm sure the top 100 is all long haulers or pilots.

Well, that was fun! Like many others have said, it's hard to choose how far back to go. I decided to start around the time I had my first child - my records from before that time were just too spotty. It shouldn't be too hard to keep up with the data now, though.

I also created separate accounts to enter all of my daughter's and son's flights. If flightmemory is still around (I hope so!), I think a poster of each of their travels will be a cool present for their 5th, 10th, etc., birthday. I've finished the ones for my daughter so far - she's gone 108,756 miles in under 4 years. Probably not the most impressive amount of flying for a FT baby, but still not too bad!

Not all of'em. I'm in the top 50 and did it primarily with thousands of domestic flights over the past 3 decades. And I've only entered about half so far.

I don't know. Am I in the top 100? While I have a lot of longhaul flights I also have a lot of short hops, and I'm not a pilot or crew.

http://my.flightmemory.com/Sluggoaafa
 

Finally found some of my old monthly calendars and have been inputting my flights.

I'm missing about 4 months of working flights, as well as a LOT of commuter flights.

It says that I'm 28th in Distance with 2,269,075 mi, 26th in # of flights at 2,017, and 23rd in Duration 5284:43 hrs. (the hours would be alot different if I had more accurate times for about 4yrs)

I was able to find some old Air Force papers that allowed me to input my TDYs over the big pond. I do remember flying some trips in the 80s, but I'm not really worried about inputting them in. I pretty much started back in November 1990 when I started auditioning for a Drum and Bugle Corps in Chicago...I was living in Virginia at the time. I had a great friend who worked for United, so I was a very loyal UA pax for 10 years...

Took me about 1 full week to get everything that I have logged...Now it will be fun to see what tail#s I'll be flying on again and again, as well as see what departure times change...

http://my.flightmemory.com/Sluggoaafa

That must have taken a long time to enter all those flights.

Try the spotting and ACARS logging communities. It's hit or miss, but they have many. This site is a good start, and you can follow leads from there to try to track down any that aren't in their database.

I wrote a small script to load them from a text file directy into the web interface. Anyone's who interested can send me a PM for details - knowing how to run a Perl script would be useful to run the script.

Anyone know of a way to lookup a particular plane if the tail number on bts.gov is not compatible with the N number lookup? For example, I recently took a flight from DFW-BDL, and bts.gov has the tail number as N3BJAA. Is there a way to "decode" this to an actual plane type?

TIA.

That's N932AN, a B737. 3BJ is AA's internal fleet number for that aircraft. Try looking in here http://web.archive.org/web/200401291...s/asr_sh00.htm