You know it is a great flight when.....

[Big Pistons Forever]

IMHO

VFR Light aircraft: When the takeoff attitude is exactly right and the airplane makes an almost imperceptible transition from ground to air

VFR Transport Category TP: Power levers go to Flight Idle at 10 grand and don’t get touched until you pull them up over the gate on the roll out

IFR: Climbing through the Shyte and then instantly breaking out to a clear blue sky over a flat layer of white stratus

[Nark]

All true.

VFR GA: the landing attitude is the same as the lift attitude and you kiss the pavement with the softest touch.

Transport category airliner: you don’t wake the FO with your landing.

[digits]

For medevac:
... you have a valid excuse to turn it down at 3 am.
... the medic is chatty with the patient and they both walk on the plane.
... you check your email before take-off and you got a job offer in there.

For scheduled ops:
... dispatch answers the phone with a surprised "you made it in?"
... you've reached max credits so you get 3 extra days off.
... your FO says "I've never done this before". Extra great if you haven't either.
... you are overweight and get to bump the bags from an asshole passenger.

For fun:
... you have to start by pumping out floats.
... you perform a manoeuvre you didn't know your plane was capable of doing (assuming you survive)

[TeePeeCreeper]

“You know it’s a great flight when?”

You can’t remember it a day later because it was routine and uneventful.

Regards,

TPC

[Slick Goodlin]

“You know it’s a great flight when?”

You can’t remember it a day later because it was routine and uneventful.

My goal is to fly as boringly as possible. Even if I succeed a flight could be notably beautiful and this memorable.

[TundraTire]

...when you don't have to file any reports afterwards.

[Doin_Time]

When after you G-LOC your student and they start to "wake up" but respond to you in Mandarin. Then in the debrief they tell you that they thought they were in their childhood home at the kitchen table talking to their mom. Putting it all in the Flight Safety write up for the Flight Doc... The brain is a funny thing.