Thanks for the great link. However, now i know I won't be productive at all at work tomorrow since I'll be looking up all the tail numbers I couldn't get initially!

:-)

How do you see the statistics in comparison to other members? Do you have to be a premium member to do that?

Also is there a way to create a map for just one continent to "zoom in" on regional flying? Example: intra-European flights

How do I change the URL in my signature to simply say My Flight Memory?

Statistics

not sure...

In your profile, set map options, domestic map to UK (or another EU country) then update statistics

update signature type My Flight Memory, click the link (chain) icon above and enter URL, or read up about BB codes

Great, thanks! So I guess there's no way to have a general European continent map at the same time as having the US domestic map.

Try http://www.acarsd.org/acars_search.html here, set the "Timelimit (Year / Month / Day to Year / Month / Day)", and add the airport code (like JFK) to "Route contains", and if you are lucky, you can find what you need. Seems like only data of last few months though.

Search Flightmemory data
 

It would be really nice to be able to search/filter my entries.

After entering 550 flights, if I find a mistake or want to see what trips I have taken in or out of a given airport, or on a given route, there is no way. It makes it really difficult to correct errors.

Suggestion:

On the flight data page, add filter by Origin, Destination, routing, airline, airplane to show only a subset of flights, with the same edit, delete,copy, rt optioms.

FlightMemory has announced that they are raising US$ prices effective ~November 15 due to declining value of US$. Can't blame them.

Mrs. P entered all of her routes (mostly free travel) and ordered the biggest possible worldwide poster. It is really very nice...photo quality...great color...and precise flight lines.

I'm trying to enter all flights...not just routes...and am finding numerous omissions in my data so am researching. So I will have to pay the increased price but it should be worth it.

Question for Pan American experts
 

I've been having great fun entering my data. I don't have the aircraft type for a lot of my earlier flights though :( Does anyone remember what type of aircraft Pan American used on their longhaul flights in 1991 between SFO-FRA and FRA-NBO? I don't remember it was a 747. Maybe an L-1011?

Does everyone enter all the data? I've really only been doing airport, airline and date. I might go back and make notes of what certain trips were for, though.

I hate that I don't have all the information on flights I flew as a child. How do people do these from memory? I'm lucky if I can remember the year! I thought for a second I'd found a way when I remembered that my dad's miles are through USAir and I had an account through them since I was 9 (though I don't really use it now), but their online stuff only goes back a few years.

I don't enter information in all the fields, and yeah only included the last several years for which I have reasonable records. There are lots of older flights I have not entered.

For recent flights I enter airline date and flight number (and equipment if I have it.)

For the very oldest it is just year and route, with airline=unknown.

One year I had dozens of SFO-DFW round trips but I have no idea how many so skipped them

since I have so few flights I've been on the site was easy to update, but I don't have any information on the equipment of my very first few trips.

all were on Lot Polish airlines, and I figured I would never get a chance to figure out the tail numbers... but since back then LOT only had 2 Boeing 767's for International flights, it might not be as hard as I thought it would be... but even then trying to decide which bird I was on will be a guess unless I find some Polish airline expert that has all the records for WAW-EWR/JFK flights.

cool site, btw!

--Russ

I usually leave out tail number, I'm just not that obsessive. Family vacations were tough for me to remember too. I can usually get month and year by tracking down old pictures (mom always wrote mo/yr on the back). My dad flew a ton for business on TWA and US Air, and every summer we'd fly somewhere off his miles, so I just list one of those. I've been able to recapture data from the last few years by looking at my past trips on Orbitz, and by skimming my frequent flyer accounts.

I have most of my FF statements dating back to 1981. Where I'm missing them I'm using my old calendars plus hotel statements to estimate where I was and how I got there. The hardest thing to figure out is free trips because they're generally not on the statements. I've also found it useful to view all of the flights I've already entered in date order. Then I can see that maybe I flew to ORD, and maybe the next flight is out of LGA, so I know I'm missing the ORD-LGA flight. So the first thing I do is check the statements to see if I made an error, and if not I then do a best guess, typically assuming it's on a likely airline for which I don't have a statement.

I must admit I hadn't noticed airplane registration numbers and names until I joined FlightMemory. And even now I still miss them sometimes. I have a few questions:

- Not every plane has a name, have they? I guess it depends on the airline.
- Where else can the name and number of the plane be read, other than outside? Last week I noticed that Lufthansa carried the (German city) name at the beginning of the aisle too.
- Is there any website where you can check the registration numbers for recent flights (i.e., BCN-MUC LH4481 dd January 12)?

Thanks.

Like many people here, I enjoy flying. Unlike many people here, I've kept a log of all my flights since I was about 8 years old. You might say I'm a flight junkie. I've always gone out of my way to fly new routes and new airlines, and mileage runs are of course de rigeur. Since joining FlyerTalk, I've also found an outlet to write about some of my travels, many of them in First Class aboard international airlines.

Anyway, Flight Memory looks like fun. I started loading the first of over 3,800 flights into it about two weeks ago. Good thing I've got alot of time on my hands right now. If my domestic map looks crowded, imagine how much busier it would look if so many routes didn't overlap eachother (Ex. ATL-ABQ ad ATL-LAX) due to the straight-only lines between city pairs. I'm through 2005 with only about 400 more flights to enter. Then I'll buy a poster. Here are the results so far:

No, not even every Lufthansa plane has a name but most of them have. As I usually have my logbook with me, I always ask the captain to fill it out anyway, including tail-number. So it's pretty easy to get the name.
Check out this website.

Unfortunately, I don't know where you can look up which plane served which flight but Oliver2002 had a website the other day that was pretty good. I don't remember it though.

The side you are refering is

http://airfleets.net/home/

My newest obsession with FlightMemory is going back and trying to match the old airlines with the right aircraft. I originally had some old TranStar flights as 737's, but discovered that they were MD-80's.

I'm also trying to split up my 150 or so 737's into the actual model numbers.

Yeah...I'm a freak. :p

I can still see the land in a few places :D

Have you got N-numbers on those 737s? If so, there's help available be it model specific (737-300) or airline specific (737-317).

And Kiwi, I'm working on those open areas! Here's a hand drawn map that doesn't include many of the smaller cities.

LOL !! This was a good one !! ^

Nice map. I'm surprised that unduplicated mileage is less than 800,000 miles. I'm closing in on 750,000 unique miles now and thought I was a long way behind (certainly am in terms of number of unique routes).

Wow. Wow. Wow. :eek:

^^^

You flew from SFO to OAK back in 1998? :confused: ^ Is there a cool story behind that? :cool:

I don't know how cool it is, but there is a story. I was on an Alaska Airlines SFO-SEA flight and apparantly their similarly timed OAK-SEA flight had been cancelled due to a mechanical problem. The powers that be at AS decided that since we had enough seats available on our flight, we could just make a quick stop in OAK and pick up those passengers as well. Flight time was just under ten minutes.

For those of us interested in tracking not only our flight memory online, you can also track your Interstate Highway travels at the Clinched Interstate Highway Mapping website.

Interesting. Although, it seems like a lot of work and you have to e-mail it to someone before you could see it. It would be cool to have something like flight memory.

I used a few rainy days last christmas to log in >year 2000 flights as I'd skied the pre 2000 lot in pursuit of tidiness!
Fantastic stats to impress your boss, particularly when you can tell him just how many hundreds of times you've endured airport security scans and sock dances.:mad:
Best of all, you can use this data to XL graph your mileage, days away (and airport security scans!!).:eek:

Hooray - there is finally a map of NZ.

http://meine.flugstatistik.de/kiwiflyer

that's what your fly per week, right? ;)

Site Enhancements
 

The layout of statistics is rearranged. The country flags appear next to airports, and the # of flights list and flight miles list per airline are side by side.

I'm trying to figure out this "Benchmark" thing.

Premium members can now rate their flights, airports and airlines. I'm not sure if this is beneficial to me or not.

It´s not only for premium members !!

i really like this tool/site. one thing that bugs me about entering flight info though is the separated screens for location/date/time info and flight number/airline/extra info. can't these be on one page ? is it perhaps an advertising imprints thing ?

great tool at any rate. can't complain too much about free stuff :D

Poster?
 

Can anyone comment on the quality? I was thinking of getting one for my ManCave as a conversation piece. I am only including travels from the last 10 years and these are vacations, non-wrk stuff only. However, most of my flights are US, Caribbean, and Mexico (one trans-Pac, one south america, and a few TATL), I was curious as to the quality of the North American Poster for discerning the airports in Mexico/Carribean.

I ask because the map on the website looks like a jarbled mess on the Mexico/Caribbean portions.

thanks

http://my.flightmemory.com/lls138

Can any decode three AA tail numbers.

I know that American often reports internal fleet numbers to the BTS. I have decoded many of the MD-80's but I can't figure these out. I think some might have been Boeing 727's. But I'm not sure.

N818AA
N2BUAA
N2BSAA

Any help would be appreciated.

I bought the big North American poster, and just looked at it again, and I suspect that you would be very happy with the detail in the Caribbean and elsewhere.

great....what size do you recommend? I was thinking of the $96 one, not the largest one.

Also, does the N. American poster include central america or does it stop around the mexico/guatemala border?

I bought the largest possible size. To give you an idea of the level of detail, the distance on the map between SJU and STT is about 1 centimeter.

The southernmost airport is SJO, and it has all of Alaska (even Barrow) and Hawaii as well as BDA.