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Maximum hours that can be flown
Can an aircraft be flown (single or multi engne) any number of hours/year as along as it is serviced after certain hourly cycle?????
Can 3000hrs be flown in one aircraft in a year????? |
In short, yes...
There are several checks that are carried out on a cycle, hour and calendar limit, whichever comes first, so obviously your cycle limit will be hit first... {EDIT} To clarify, there are three limits that an aircraft work to Cycle: One take off and landing Hour: Actual hours flying Calendar: Calendar days You can have 3000 flights of half an hour each. This would leave you at 3000 cycles, but at 1500 hours... and so on... |
Longhaul aircraft can average 13/14 hours flying a day (4745 to 5110 hours a year)
You may find some airlines can manage more hours utilisation than that! |
Whats an approximate maximum hours that can be flown in a year in
C152 C172 Piper Seneca, Piper seminole |
As long as all the maintenance checks are done at the right times(50 hours/150 hours/annual for planes on the LAMS schedule) you can fly as many hours as you like, so long as the weather`s good enough!
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Our PA 28's and C152's used to regularly attain 1000 hours a year. These days they do not do as many though, but still will be doing about 500 Hrs.
On the PA28 flying over 40 hrs a month extends the Engine TBO by 200 hrs. |
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