I just reached 1000 hours!!!......
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I just reached 1000 hours!!!......
......this morning, while teaching quickstops to a student.
668 rotary, 332 fixed-wing (includes a few microlight, gyroplane etc), for anyone who's interested.
Now, I know to some of you this will be a lot of fuss about nothing and you got there years ago, while to others it'll seem an unobtainable figure so they don't want to know about it, but to me....
Well, actually, I'm pretty chuffed!
But no-one in the village seems interested, and the cats just purred when I told them, so I thought I'd tell my friends on PPRuNe. And if anyone wants to meet me tonight in Ashbourne to celebrate, the drinks are on me.
(so long as it's not too many of you)
Just one thing I can't understand though. You see, I spent many years thinking that people with four-figure flying hours were super-special demi-gods who knew all there was to know about flying. So how come I'm just as stupid, make just as many mistakes, still get lost now and then, and don't really know very much at all? Doesn't seem fair. I really fancied being a demi-god.
668 rotary, 332 fixed-wing (includes a few microlight, gyroplane etc), for anyone who's interested.
Now, I know to some of you this will be a lot of fuss about nothing and you got there years ago, while to others it'll seem an unobtainable figure so they don't want to know about it, but to me....
Well, actually, I'm pretty chuffed!
But no-one in the village seems interested, and the cats just purred when I told them, so I thought I'd tell my friends on PPRuNe. And if anyone wants to meet me tonight in Ashbourne to celebrate, the drinks are on me.
(so long as it's not too many of you)
Just one thing I can't understand though. You see, I spent many years thinking that people with four-figure flying hours were super-special demi-gods who knew all there was to know about flying. So how come I'm just as stupid, make just as many mistakes, still get lost now and then, and don't really know very much at all? Doesn't seem fair. I really fancied being a demi-god.
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So how come I'm just as stupid, make just as many mistakes, still get lost now and then, and don't really know very much at all? Doesn't seem fair. I really fancied being a demi-god.
Sorry - forgot to say well done!! Yet another thing to give you a nice warm glow inside.
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Rod1,
If you want to meet, let me know definitely, and we can decide where...seems like no-one else is interested though, or they haven't read this yet, or they live too far away. Maybe I'll just have an early night instead.
ariel,
You are certainly not going mad, and the cats will get some fancy food...which will make them purr more, whether they understand or not.
jabberwok,
I daresay you're right - I bet none of my friends would talk to me if I became a demi-god.
IO540,
If I had enough money to have an aircraft to insure, I daresay my insurance would come down. But luckily instructors get paid to fly...sort of anyway.
If you want to meet, let me know definitely, and we can decide where...seems like no-one else is interested though, or they haven't read this yet, or they live too far away. Maybe I'll just have an early night instead.
ariel,
You are certainly not going mad, and the cats will get some fancy food...which will make them purr more, whether they understand or not.
jabberwok,
I daresay you're right - I bet none of my friends would talk to me if I became a demi-god.
IO540,
If I had enough money to have an aircraft to insure, I daresay my insurance would come down. But luckily instructors get paid to fly...sort of anyway.
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Well Done Wb
I nearly got to 500 total but this JAR **** revoked my licence for being diagnosed as diabetic - got to 492 But i do still fly with a mate just can't log it thats all 
enjoy getting hammered tonight 
But i do still fly with a mate just can't log it thats all enjoy getting hammered tonight
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Well done , If I was closer would join you for a beer ! on the insurance front, 1500hrs + CRi Instructor..etc, own aircraft and they still put up the insurance this year by £30, not allot but still a niggle, you can never win with insurance premiums 
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Wonder if i was allowed to keep my licence as an insulin diabetic how much the insurance would have gone up for the flying clubs aircraft?
I bet the insurance company would have a f
g field day!!
I bet the insurance company would have a f
g field day!!
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Well done Whirls .
I always love reading your posts, plenty of interesting well informed comment.
I had thought you had done 10,000 hours, never mind a 1,000.
So here is to you and to the fun of the next 1,000 hours.
.I always love reading your posts, plenty of interesting well informed comment.
I had thought you had done 10,000 hours, never mind a 1,000.
So here is to you and to the fun of the next 1,000 hours.
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Well done Whirly! Sorry I'm too far away to be able to join you this evening. Have a great time. Please say "Hi" to the cats for me.
Please say "Hi" to the cats for me.
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Congratulations Whirly - sorry I couldn't make it tonight. I haven't counted up recently but I reckon I am about 200 hours behind you, but I will never catch up as you do far more rotary hours than I do. I will have to get you to sit beside me to satisfy the insurance Co while I do some autos, then I can log them P1 and you can't log anything.
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It's a nice milestone, but don't fall into the 1000hr trap. But I very much doubt that you're daft enough to do that.
Well done. You'll find the numbers stop mattering as much now. I found that up to 1000 I knew my breakdown to the nearest minute. Now, I think I know it to the nearest 100 hours!!
Have a drink on me too. It's amazing how no one other than pilots seem to care about it though!
Well done. You'll find the numbers stop mattering as much now. I found that up to 1000 I knew my breakdown to the nearest minute. Now, I think I know it to the nearest 100 hours!!
Have a drink on me too. It's amazing how no one other than pilots seem to care about it though!
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Well done,
Fly extra careful for a while now, the statisics aren't smiling on you for a bit. I still make mistakes, but I was cocky and made a few too many when I had 1000 hours! I survived it, and so did the planes, but I got my own attention a few times!
We want to read that you made 2000 in a couple of years!
Enjoy your celebration,
Pilot DAR
Fly extra careful for a while now, the statisics aren't smiling on you for a bit. I still make mistakes, but I was cocky and made a few too many when I had 1000 hours! I survived it, and so did the planes, but I got my own attention a few times!
We want to read that you made 2000 in a couple of years!
Enjoy your celebration,
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Congratulations. 1000 hours. Pfew! (You're a bit of a demi-god to me if that's what cheers you up!)
I have over 900 hours to go to get there... I hope I will enjoy them as much as you seemed to have enjoyed them.
I have over 900 hours to go to get there... I hope I will enjoy them as much as you seemed to have enjoyed them.
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Whirly, well done!
The second thousand will surely come around sooner than you know; in fact eventually you might find you don't bother counting anymore, a bit like birthdays
Free drink in Derbyshire? Damn, missed it. But then, didn't get home from work until nearly closing time.... Cup final day, pax late etc.
The second thousand will surely come around sooner than you know; in fact eventually you might find you don't bother counting anymore, a bit like birthdays
Free drink in Derbyshire? Damn, missed it. But then, didn't get home from work until nearly closing time.... Cup final day, pax late etc.