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Old 3rd Feb 2013, 18:37
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Because I am in a travelling training and examining job my totals are not representative of a line pilot. However I think between 250 and 300 hours is about right with the amount of SAROps in there being variable depending on how busy your flight is - Chivenor and Valley did over 300 jobs each last year whereas Wattisham was under 200.

Most RAF crews will fly a good proportion of those 4 hours available each day so even if you took out 30 days to weather and serviceability (which is a lot) you still end up with each flight getting through over 1300 hours per year.
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