Types and hours flown?

[ppf]

Okay ladies and gents what aircrafts have you flown and how many hours have you got on them?

Heres to start you off:

Vigilant - 152 hrs.

Not very impressive I know but i'm not allowed to touch the real things! :(

[unowho]

Sad lonelly looser OR WHAT But to make you happy and give you a reason to live

JP3/5 200hrs
Hawk 150hrs
Tornado GR1/4 2400 hrs

Am I sad and lonely!!!!!!!!!!!

[ppf]

Thanks very much for the compliments, much appreciated!

Just one quick question do some of you fast jet boys wear hour patches on your flying suits! Surely that would be a bit sad letting everyone know how many hours you have or am I just being cynical!

:D

[Hueymeister]

UNO probably

Chippy 600+
JP5a 80
Gazelle 85
Wessex HC2 2500
Sea King 4 750
UH 1D 300
Grob Tutor 25

...and I still need to practice!!!!!!!!

[RRAAMJET]

Where on Earth are you flying the Huey, HUEY???

anyway:

Bulldog 60
Flying Scholarship 35 - I edited this bit 'cos I'm an idiot...
Tweet 150
T-38 150
BAe 146 1500
HS 125 500
TriStar 1500
Boeing 747 1500
" 757 1200
" 767 300
" 777 500
MD-80 2000

VARIOUS: B-727, JP 3, Hawk, Jetstream, Sea King, Wessex, Andover, Yak 52M, P-51D Mustang and things here-and-there.

And I'm still cr@p at it... :\

[BEagle]

Glad you valued your Flying Scholarship so highly. The phrase about gift horse and mouth springs to mind....:mad:

Had to fill out the CAA form to get my 'as good as free' ATPL based on military hours, so I'll see if I've still got it.

But hours aren't everything; they are, however, the only yardstick which the CAA has as they simply cannot test everyone for ability alone...

[MobiusTrip]

BEagle,

Well said. "Experience and ability are two separate things". Someone once said it to me, dunno who. I used to wear hours patches, but now I can't be arsed!

MT

[Chris Kebab]

Totally agree BEagle. What an ungrateful ****.

1500 hours sitting on the flight deck of a 747 eh - how exciting.

Personally I think it should be number of sorties flown - hours totals are rather pointless when all you are doing is drinking coffee. Give me an hour at 250 ft over 8 hrs at FL350 any day.

[MightyGem]

Oh, I love a mine's bigger than your's competition:

Lynx 2400 :ok:
Gazelle 1350 (Had no choice I'm afraid) :ugh:
AS 355 1070
EC 135 330 :cool:
Kiowa 140
Alouette 3 30
Chipmunk 40
Plus 200 or so in 15 types of Glider
Hang Glider 5 :ok:

[RRAAMJET]

Heeelllppp....I surrender!

Gosh, sorry, you're right - didn't mean it to sound like that. "Tw@t" is probably correct, "don't write when you're recovering from a red-eye" is also probably correct. Believe me, I'm very grateful for the FS. The school I selected to give the RAF's money to was my fault, not theirs - the aircraft were in poor state, and we fell way behind sched due to u/s aircraft. The ex-V-force/ CFS A-1 instructor was great, however.

I will edit the post, as on reflection it will stand as an example of not re-reading what you've written. I'll change feet...

And agreed, every hour in the RAF was far more interesting than sipping coffee. Unless it's an IGS approach to Kai Tak during a typhoon....

Going back to the thread with tail-between-legs, yelping:

BEags: post yours - you've had a chunk of types.
I was also hoping JohnFarley would put his experiences on here.
My aim was just to show those interested in a Service career flying what a huge variety of aircraft it opens up to you, as I assume was the intent of the thread starter - he did ask for types and hours, after all.

:uhoh: beleaguered...:ouch:

[Bill O'Average]

"Experience and ability are two separate things".

Back page is the most important in the log book. Where you've been. The reams of hours in the front are just to make the book look more important!

:ok:

[BEagle]

OK we'll take that as a mea culpa, mate!

The only reason I'll post my hours is to show the sort of flying which any gash shag (sorry, girlies) of the flares and roll neck 1970s could get in the mob - certainly not because I've ever done anything particularly impressive!

For example, since I first sat in one of HM's aeroplanes (excluding the 1:55 I got in a Sea Vixen coal hole at the age of 15), I managed:

Chipmunk 144:55
Jet Provost 235:50
Dominie (not the biplane!) 7:20
Gnat 101:55
Beaver 15:25
Hunter (aaahhh) 130:40
Meteor T7 (back seat pax) 3:45
Buccaneer 46:30
Vulcan 762:05
Hawk 145:45
Phantom 488:20
Jetstream 16:25 horrid hours - I hated the b££ody thing!
VC10/VC10K 5103:40
Bulldog 936:40
......and a GCA in a B-52.

Plus around another 1000 in various light ac.

Ground tours: 6 weeks.........

plus a fair bit of holding here and there.

[ppf]

Well so far you guys make my meagre tally seem insignificant probably because it is!

RRAAMJET that is why I started the post not because i'm a sad lonely person but because it interests me the variety of different aircraft you people are all allowed to play with! I added the hours bit on as you log the hours you fly so thought you could add those along with the aircraft.


Chris Kebab feel free to add the number of sorties flown if you want!

:D

[escapee]

For multi engined crews how many chicken curries you have had is a far more relevant yardstick.:=

[ShyTorque]

Gliders including Slingsby T-31, about 10
Chippy, 10
Grob Tutor, a couple.
Various civvy SEPs, mainly Cessna, about 60
JP 3/5/5A, 200
Whirlwind HAR 10, 110
Wessex 5, 35
Puma HC1, 2540
Gazelle, 445
Bulldog, 740
SK-76 A+, B, C, C+, 1850 plus
S-70 Blackhawk & Pave Hawk, 330
CH-53 PaveLow, 10
Bell 212, 5 or 6
Hunter, 3
Harrier, 3
Various other rotary, about 25
Robinson R-22, just the one thanks....... :\

Crikey! After all these years, the minutes still count then, Beags? :p

[BEagle]

Not really - just couldn't be ar$ed to round them up/down - took them straight off my CAA form!

Mind you, minutes probably count hugely for those who've flown Lightnings or early Harriers. Or T31s! Got a few minutes on those as well - plus T21, T42, T49, Bocian, Blanik, ASK21 and whatever the single seat version of the T31 was caled!

[henry crun]

Beagle, I believe it was officially called the Cadet Mk2 and unofficially the Tutor.

[smartman]

Beags - did you do IOT @ CF in 69?

[Hummingfrog]

As my anonymity is fast disappearing here are mine!!

Chipmunk 450
JP5A 167
Whirlwind 10 95
Wessex HC2 2440
Seaking 3 1299
Cessna 310 22
SuperPuma 1137
Dauphin N/N2 2670
Bulldog 185
Grob Tutor 120


Plus various backseats in Gnat, Harrier and Phantom. Missed out on the Lightning because the T bird crashed at Gutersloh just as my name approached the top of the list!!

HF

[BEagle]

smartman - no, I was a Flt Cdt at RAFC Cranwell in 1968. Then given the chance to go to university, so like 140 others I leaped at the chance! Did a year at CW on 99 Entry 68-69, then 4 years at University 69-73 before coming back as a Graduate Entrant 73-74 including Wings course. Very civilised it was too! Lots of hours, lots of fun, not much bull$hit......

[ppf]

Thanks so far for your inputs on this thread! Not many posts here from the fast jet world? I take back my hour patch comment! :D

[bluetail]

OK
I can,t get close to BEAGLE, but...

as a NIMROD CREW CHIEF I did a grand total of 635.50 (as a passenger) down the back

1.30 Tiger Moth (G-ANJA)

plus numerous other gash trips


Much the same as some of the crew I guess

BT

[twenty2fifty]

the numbers aren't so big but 2900 hrs (approx 1900 sorties) GR1/4, still flying; JP, Hawk plus a go in a Mirage 2000N, Dutch F16, Jag, MB326 and the best fun trip ever - front seat of a Huey Cobra - really different!

[Wholigan]

Don't have log book to hand so guesstimations are:

JP3/4 - 170
Gnat - 70
Hunter - 1900
CF104 Starfighter - 600
Jaguar - 1300
Gazelle - 6
Harrier 3/4 - 500
Grob Tutor - 350
Plus various gash rides in - Meteor (about 5), Vampire, Tiger Moth, Piston Provost, Phantom (USAF and RAF, about 4), F16 about 6), T33 (about 25), F5 (about 10), F18 (exactly 3:25 [stuck in the mind well you see]), Sea Harrier (3).

The point is though ----- loved every minute and would do 'em all again!!!!!!!!!!

[Airbedane]

My logbook's not to hand either, so here's a few memories:

I've been a private pilot since 1967 and a professional since 1969 - sharing the first three years at the same University College and on the same UAS as BEagle - good times, eh matey!?). In that time I've amassed only 6000+ hours, but that includes three years at Uni, a ground tour of 10 months, 8 years working as CTP of a Company that 'ceased flight operations!', and 8 months off sick.

For the first 12 years I flew 7 types (approx hrs): C150/172, (120), Chipmunk (150), JP (200), Gnat (70), Hunter (300), Jaguar(850) and Hawk (800). Following TP course in France in 81/82, I've added well over 100 types, but here's where the minutes count; from the bottom: Pucara (0:05), Bleriot XI (0:15), Piper Cub: (0:15), Aeronca Chief (0:10), EE Wren: (0:30), EE Lightning (0:30), and so on.

Main types are: BAC1-11 (900), Jaguar (850), Hawk (800), HS125 (500), Spitfire (300), Hunter (300), Harrier (300), Buccaneer (250), BAe 146 (200), Chipmunk (150), JP (200), C150/152/172 (120), Harvard (120), Jodel D120 (100), AC112 (100)

I envy your trip in the Mirage 2000 twenty2fifty - we were planned to fly it on my TP course, but it was behind in it's test program, so we were given the Epsilon to play with instead.......

[ppf]

Seeing that a few of you are posting your gash flights as well thought I might put mine on!

Hercules - 30 mins
Gazzelle - 20 mins
Wessex HC2 - 4 hrs
Bae 146 - 1 hr
Nimrod - 6hrs
Tutor - 5 hrs
Yak - 52 - 30 mins
Cessna 172 - 2 hrs
PA-28 - 1 hr

As you can probably guess I was a spacey many moons ago!

Any offerings from abroad?? :O

[Pontius Navigator]

Aw shucks, here goes then

Lancaster, Anson, Valetta, Varsity, Hastings, Dakota, Shackleton, Chipmonk, Meteor T14, Lightning, F4, Canberra, Vulcan, Victor, Tri-Star, Dominie, Nimrod, Sentry, E3, NE3 and about 5,600 in all. I might have missed one or two.

Then as pax, Coot, Crake, Coke, C130, C141, C5, C97, VC10, Britannia, numerous hecopleters, many boings and airbus.

[Padhist]

At my age you are not going to get the hours flown, but I must own up to the odd (few) hrs Also to the fact that the Constellation and the DC7 had a line captain aboard in the right hand seat, Myself flying as test pilot for blind landings. Anyway here goes:-
Tiger Moth
Fairchild PT 19
Harvard
Barracuda ( 8 deck landings)
Oxford
Martinet
Auster
Spitfire
Meteor
Prentice
Lancaster
Athena
Hornet
Mosquito
Vampire
Cessna
Canberra
Vulcan
Varsity
Javelin
Dakota
Hunter
Oh yes for my 80th birthday a Rally got a picture to prove it
It felt like a F 22 but I think it was stationary and would not stall???

[Hueymeister]

OK..you get my vote!

[ppf]

And mine!

Need 15 characters.......that should do.

:D

[FJJP]

I was going to post my extensive experience, but after Airbedane and Padhirst, I thought I would skip it - I can't compete with either!

[Feck]

Padhist,

Hornet, you lucky ******.

[BEagle]

Why 15?

[ppf]

Beags I tried posting and was told I need 15 characters due to wasting bandwidth or something technical like that! Never seen it before but thought i'd better play ball.

ppf ;)