I came close to that last summer in the Spitfire, flying to British Columbia and back (from Ottawa) with a few diversions for airshows.

No guns though -- swapped them for gas tanks.

It's a tough job but someone has to do it. :O How many hours do you have on Spitfires?

Also makes me wonder how your brother logged his time on the ISS? 1 take off, 1 landing, 4000+ hours? :confused:

Whilst working for an airline in the far south west UK (now, sadly no more) over 30 years ago, if you did the late shift on the Heathrow flights you did 8 sectors per day and often did that for 5 days on the trot, so that was 40 sectors in a week.

A decade before that I did 28 glider tows in a Wilga between a late lunch and an early tea. I must have flown in the morning and probably evening as well. The 28 were all recorded as one line in my logbook, though.

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lunch, that was eaten in the climb. I remember once eating away when I looked up and realised I was having lunch in IMC. Oops. But you know you can fly with your knees.
So unprofessional
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Two pages in a month: easy - just ask any BFTS QFI. New course arrives, 4 studes each, so that's 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. Day 1 - Famil x 4, Day 2 - E of C 1 x 4, Day 3 - E of C 2 x 4, and so on until you get them solo.

Maybe it doesn't happen like that now though.

I suspect that would have been on JPs - I've also got that T-shirt, although we were only given three students each.

Dead right dook. Writing up (was it a 5060?) at the end of the day, it was sometimes difficult to remember who cocked-up what.

Managed it five times since 1959. Two whole pages (not counting monthly summary, on 3rd page!). First as QFI at UBAS summer camp, then twice instructing in Saudi Arabia and twice with SOAF on Skyvans and Defenders. Also once on JP's at Linton but that included a monthly summary! Those were the days!! (I think!)

Bill

BM,

That's a coincidence.

I also instructed at Linton and in Saudi Arabia. Were you at KFAA ?

binbrook,

I always wrote up the trips immediately after debrief, and I think it was F5060.

I've never done that many hours in one month.

I do have two adjacent pages of my logbook when I was a student at ETPS with 13 sorties in a row, in 13 different types: last one admittedly a private flight on leave.

G

As a helicopter pilot I tend to aggregate sectors into a one or two line logbook entry. I once flew a long haul airline pilot in my spare front seat and we did nineteen sectors in less than two hours. After landing he told me I had done what for him would have been months' worth of landings, in that one flight.

Counsel of perfection dook, and not always achieved I'm afraid by yours truly at that stage of the course.

dook,

Yes, Linton and KFAA. Would have to check logbook again for dates but Linton late 60's and KFAA early 80's.

Bill

Like dook and binbrook above, I was a JP QFI (in my case in the mid 60s) and it was a frequent occurrence to fill 2 pages in a month. Yes, F5060, quarto size with a pale blue cover; and yes, easy to forget who did what if you did not do the write-up immediately.

Log book pages don't tell the whole story about flight time. I log up to 16 hours per sector - not many sectors to reach FTL.
Your sector count is truly impressive though newt. I'm not sure that I want to emulate it.

You would if you were flying that aeroplane.

Valley in 80/81 on the Hawk, we racked up 3, sometimes 4 trips a day, so 2 pages per month was the norm.

FTC limit for basic QFIs was 50 hours per month (T/O to landing - none of this chock-to-chock nonsense). Quote: "Do you want to do your 50 hours before you go on leave or after you come back?". Happy days.