Good question, 2Donks.
Personally, it used to be b). That's not an issue now I have a share in my own aircraft, but I still feel a little guilty about taking it away for both days of the weekend, rather than letting the rest of the group have access to it.
A) is very valid in the UK, but it's not just the return trip - if I need to be somewhere, I'll drive. Even if it's just a weekend away, if the hotel's booked then I need to be there, and it's much easier to plan to drive there.
I'm not sure on c) - although many pilots are poor, there are plenty of us with enough money that this shouldn't be a problem. And d) covers a very small proportion of the total pilots.
I've only ever done 2 overnighters - both in the US, where the weather was far more reliable, where I considered myself to be on holiday so I didn't mind splashing out for hotels, and where there were places that I genuinely wanted to visit. I have used an aeroplane to get to places for a day-trip several times - but again, mostly in the US, I tend to drive to places in the UK.
So my mid-March resolution will be to use my 'plane to get somewhere that I would normally drive to, at least once, by the end of the year!
FFF
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