I found it varied as my role changed.
As a first tourist on a squadron I flew up to 30 hours a month. Once I became an authoriser it dropped off to about 20 hours. As a nav instructor on the OCU it was as little as 8 hours a month. That was barely enough to keep current never mind instruct.
My longest Q sortie was 7 hours. I once flew 6 sorties in a day on a max fly exercise in Malta which was more than GASOs allowed. The Boss wanted to fly 56 sorties that day so he sought dispensation. One sortie was normal and 3 or 4 in a day very unusual unless you landed away.
The routine tasks did become instinctive but there were never two sorties the same. Always something to catch you out if you stopped paying attention.
My record in an F4 was bringing a jet back from the South Atlantic. 5 hours day plus 2.20 night into ASI followed 48 hours later by 9 hours to UK.
Last edited by Geehovah; 27th Sep 2012 at 10:19.