How many hours do you really do???

[woof]

There is a great deal of hoohah about flying millions of hours each month and we all seem to be flying more that each other :confused: so I thought I would do a quick test to see.

If you can be bothered please state:
Company
Rank
Rolling or annual total.

For me its:
Easyjet
SFO
About 800

Just interested really.

[LDG_GEAR _MONITOR]

about 25 hrs a month as average - freight operator out of east mids with brightly painted machines

[gyni]

easyJet SFO
750 hours rolling
London based

[Aussie]

LOT Polish airlines
FO
600-650 annually :E

[zerotohero]

FR
F/O Past 1500Hours (Higher Rate)
75Per Month last few months
Expect 700-800 for the year depending on lots of factors I guess
Not based in UK or Italy or Ireland

[Dufo]

350 block hours last year.. on saab 340 freighter.

[Jenson Button]

BMR f/o
830 hrs

jenson

[stansdead]

A very average line Captain, Wizzair.

900 Hours. Not joking.

[PAPI-74]

SFO TP - last year 650
- this year approx 500

[bfisk]

FO
Lufttransport (in Norway, not the German outfit)
Just under 300 hours pr yer

[Knee Trembler]

Lufthansa Regional (IQ)
Dash 8 Capt
450 - 550 flt hrs pa. 140 duty hrs pm. 10 days off avg per month.

[747JJ]

Loco capt 802 hours in the last rolling year. 1506h of duty. 343h since Jan 1st.

[lederhosen]

737 Capt. Europe: flew just over 600 hours last year. It has varied between 6 and 7 hundred hours with some time out for other stuff over the last few years. Managed 25 days skiing with my kids last winter and did a bit of training.

[Night_Watch]

T3
820 rolling
Scotland

[Four Candles]

EZY Capt LGW

365 day rolling 880-920 Duty Hours 1500

12 month usually 890-895

[ABO944]

Euro freight dog/pax ops

Captain on Saab 340

Circa 350 hours last year

[White Knight]

EK 330/340 Capt

850 - 900 12 months

352 since Jan 1st.

[cldrvr]

604/605 Captain, 150-180 duty days a year, 300-400 hours. 90 since January

[The Flying Cokeman]

EZY capt and LGW based.

Last 365 days I have flown 765 hrs and have just over 1400 hrs duty time.

[Garba51]

Would say 400 block time pa when there is no volcano :ugh:

Biz jet operator in France

F/O

Garba

[eagerbeaver1]

FR Captain - 850 plus minimum in 12 months. A rough guess is about 350 to 400 since january 1st.

[Cavallier]

Cathay Pacific 747-400 F/O

650 - 700 hours per year.

[FougaMagister]

Freight dog ATR F/O. 400 flt hrs/year on average, 85% at night.

Cheers :cool:

[supermoix]

Company: Corporate/Private Citation 550 Bravo.
Rank: Captain
Average per year: 240 hours
12 Duty days per month.

Can't really complain.

[Clandestino]

...or name your employer lest its office gets inundated with applications.

Me: SE Europe DHC-8 Q400 capt.

First year: 480 block hours. Avg 9 days/mo off, 9 nights in downroute hotels.

Used to fly 750 hrs/year as an A320 FO, with a bit more off days.

[thebeast]

Ryr Spanish base

FO last 3 years

800
700
730

[stop, stop, stop]

LBA based regional jet....

Approx 600hrs a year. (1hr sectors) and 150 duty hours a month. 7-9 days off a month. 0-13 nightstops per month.

Snapshot of May....

55 block hrs, 155 duty hours, 11 nightstops, 8 days off.

SSS

[jb5000]

EZY European base

760 hours, 1,650 duty hours and 498 sectors.

Since Jan 1st:

325 hours, 680 duty and 212 sectors.

[Pinky95]

klm cityhopper
E190 Captain
57 hours last month 137 duty hours
365 flighthours rolling year... but with about 8 weeks of simulator not included in that total (lots of training happening)
At least 11 days off a month

[Fly4Fun]

A310 Captain, Europe based
Last year 450 hours crossing the Atlantic

[BigNumber]

CJ2 Captain; European Biz Jet Operation.

603 hrs rolling total.

(Duty Hours Off the Clock!)

[DutchBird-757]

BA CityFlyer, EDI Based
F/O Embraer E170/E190
2010 from 1st jan -> +/- 150 hr :( (only 7 sectors in April)
2009 -> 450 hr
2008 -> 650 hr

[Kestrel_Stu]

TCX A320/321/330
SFO
550-650h p.a.
1,400h duty p.a.

Typically:
May-Oct 60-70h per month
Nov-Apr 30-40h per month

Quietest ever month: 7h
Busiest ever month: 81h

[rivalino]

EZY Capt based LGW
Rolling 880-920.
They just manage to keep me down to 900 in 12 rolling months

[X-BleedOpen]

Hi All!

Italian Low Cost F/O
Airbus A319/320

2009 Records...
Flight Time: 829h
Duty Time: 1445:40h

Highest Hours in a month: 88h
Lowest Hours in a month: 58h

40h of sim, between Sandbags and normal LPCs/OPCs...

Now I changed airline, but it is quite similar... :-)

[TopBunk]

BA 747-400 Captain (now rtd)

last 12 months in BA = 855hrs over 94 sectors but did at one point get up to 893:10 on a rolling year basis
last 6 months in BA = 98:59hrs highest month, 46:40hrs lowest month with leave and 470hrs total.
highest ever month = 113:56 in 1999:ouch:

[plain-plane]

800 last year but 3 months off.
normally last 2 years before that 940 and 980 scheduled hrs giving close to 880 actual block hrs...
the joy of being a short haul cpt...

[Miguel Martins]

Portuguese company flying regional routes for a portuguese airline
B1900 copilot

About 700 hrs per year

Highest month: 86 hrs
Lowest month: 23 hrs (2 weeks on vacation + 1 week on leave :})

[screw fix diret]

UK charter 75/767
SFO 500-650 per year over last 9 years.

[Unzie2000]

701Hours: 2009/10

SFO

FR

UK base

[Overheat]

Portuguese Airline flying A319/20/21.
Last year duty 1200, block 755
This year already with 320 block, 545 duty.

[Northbeach]

Domestic USA, some limited international.

Captain 737 (Classic & NG)

Last 12 months (May 2009 - May 2010): 817.2 hours 299 sectors.

Approximately 3,400 hours total duty.

[crisp2]

Capt Tiger Airways Singapore, 950 to 980 rolling hours unless on leave...

[ehwatezedoing]

I found my nest:

Aerial work only,
Capt Twin turboprop,
Highest 551hrs in 2001
lowest 153hrs in 2009

A total of 6 months off each year.
Can't complain either :ok:

[3pins]

UK based, captain
About 150 hours/year
private operation, only one crew, normaly a week or two notice before each flight.:)

[drfaust]

Second on the Q400.

400 flight hours yearly. Slightly increasing now, but home every night.

[Lrjetcap]

Captain LR45XR/DA-50
International/Domestic
450yr/avg
650 high/290 low (2004/2009)

[Norman Stanley Fletcher]

UK-based easyJet Training Captain flying to UK, Europe and North Africa.

Rolling 365 days constantly varying between 890 and 920 hours over approx 440 sectors. Duty hours oscillate around 1380 per year.

(Of those hours about 50 are teaching in the simulator)

[Wellington Bomber]

Eastern SFO 700 hours last year, and about 1,000,000 duty hours including positioning by car

[qualitycontrol]

EZY LGW Capt. Rolling 880.........

[cldrvr]

Nice little trend seems to be appearing, really need a larger sampling, however us Bizjockeys seem to be struggling reaching 300 a year and the airline guys seem to be struggling staying under 900.

[AeroBoero]

FO;

Brazilian A319/20/21 operator.
Last year 712. This year 321 already.

:ok:

[dcsagcs]

Captain on A320 flying for TAM, brazilian airlines.
70 hrs ( twice on duty) and 8 days off every month.
Sometimes up to 4 hrs break between sectors without accomodation...
:ugh:

[esreverlluf]

Qantas 747-400 F/O 431 hours in the last 365 days, spread over a total of 41 sectors. :ok:

[Aussie]

You guys at QF have just got it too good, and good on yas for it :)

We are just NVS :}:}:ok:

[iflytb20]

IX B737-800
850-900 hrs per year
95% International flights (to neighboring countries)

[LSGG]

Learjet 45 captain.
Private operation
185 hours in 2009
round 600 hours duty time

[epsum]

LJ60 F/O,
420 hours last year.
commercial

last month with 3 weeks 47 hours.

[170to5]

UK-based A320 F/O

800 hours last 12 months, 1350 duty hours, flying around 90 hours a month over summer, dropping to 50 a month over the winter...

Recently outdid myself by flying 94 hours in a calendar month...and had a week of leave in the middle of it!

[nitrowired]

G9
900 hours in 11 month. around 25 days limited a year plus Anual leave.
fo

[clearfortheoption]

856 hrs last 365 days with 497 sectors

Easyjet 319 European base

[lilflyboy262]

Around 80-90 a month.
Last 5 months, 648 sectors.
Life of a bush pilot ;)

[Paolo]

895 hours in the last 365 days. LHS orange LGW

[superced]

in LCC. that's 500 sectors a year that's the problem !!!!!(not the flying hours)

[747JJ]

Just to add to my previous post. 820 some hours and 460 sectors for the rolling 365. Not the hours but the sectors that are killing me.

[superced]

the sectors are killing us ( 500 sectors.... Orange Lcc )

[Denti]

Last 12 months 575 hours block, 1445 duty, 315 sectors.

[vserian]

Around 80 hrs, mostly long haul

and less than 15 sectors

[Bucking Bronco]

BA 747
SFO
Rolling 12 months= 840 to 860 hrs per year for the last 5 years.

Oddly enough, you do more as you go up the seniority list, the guys at the bottom on "blind lines" do less flying than "trip line" holders. Although trip line holders have influence over their rosters.

[flap15]

LGW Easy Capt,
810 in last 365 days, all though this is increasing, I achieved 99 hrs and 47minutes in 27 days during August and was rewarded with two day of "High hours contactable" and still achieved 106hrs for the month of August.

[spacecadet]

Gulfstream,
250 flying hours per year in approx. 40 sectors.