How many flying hours do you have?
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How many flying hours do you have?
Just wanted to know what is the max number of hours you heard a pilot has accumulated over their flying careers?
The recent one which I heard was an AA captain who had 29,500hrs on his log book and still had around 3 years to go...that is the highest figure I have ever come accross so far!
Anymore?
The recent one which I heard was an AA captain who had 29,500hrs on his log book and still had around 3 years to go...that is the highest figure I have ever come accross so far!
Anymore?
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From: Sussex
David Phillips of BUA/BCAL was believed to hold an unbeatable record. He was a VC10 then 707 then DC10 Captain. After he retired in 1984 he went to fly the Shed with Connectair, which became part of Air Europe. I believe that when he was still in BCAL he had flown more than 35, 000 hours. Perhaps someone might have a contact through which this information could be checked.
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Considering the fact that many companies may have to increase retirement ages to 65 and that pilots are being pushed to max hours more and more frequently someone starting in early 20's could easily rack up 30000-35000 hours in a career.
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yeah and no one would care anyway.
But pilots are interesting and a pilot's tally of hours is directly proportional to the size of his weinerschnitzel.
Me, I brag about my 12000 hrs constantly. It makes me a bigger man and anyone with less hours, is by definition, proportionally that much less of a man. Unless he's a woman in which case none of it counts for anything because let's face it, no one cares what a woman has flown or how many hours she has. You get bored listening to her "war-ries"... right??
15000 is more than enough. I will quit before then and live on my inheritance and IPO returns. Screw sitting on my @r$e making it flatter and fatter. Airline flying is boring and sucks. I only do it for the beer-money.
But pilots are interesting and a pilot's tally of hours is directly proportional to the size of his weinerschnitzel.
Me, I brag about my 12000 hrs constantly. It makes me a bigger man and anyone with less hours, is by definition, proportionally that much less of a man. Unless he's a woman in which case none of it counts for anything because let's face it, no one cares what a woman has flown or how many hours she has. You get bored listening to her "war-ries"... right??
15000 is more than enough. I will quit before then and live on my inheritance and IPO returns. Screw sitting on my @r$e making it flatter and fatter. Airline flying is boring and sucks. I only do it for the beer-money.
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air-hag, I would have loved to follow your idea, nearing the 16,000 now and still 10 years to go....
Big Tudor, does not work on shorthaul...in my case >27,000 are in the book and some 2-3,000 are not logged as I had days with about 60-80 landings.....towing, training, dropping....
Big Tudor, does not work on shorthaul...in my case >27,000 are in the book and some 2-3,000 are not logged as I had days with about 60-80 landings.....towing, training, dropping....
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As per Flight Journal August 2004 the highest time living pilot is Evelyn Bryan Johnson with 57,567 hours. Guinness says she is the highest time women and that a fellow who died a couple of years ago had more than 64,000 hours. Considering that a lot of my 20,000 hours have been spent eating, napping, and going to the blue room, I'll never be in the ballpark with these folks.
http://www.flightjournal.com
http://www.flightjournal.com
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From: UK after many years in the USA
Lotta hours...
Sadly fairly recently passed away but I had the pleasure to log some Cub time with Amelia reid a few years back here in Northern California:
http://www.reidhillviewairport.com/R...ameliareid.htm
"Amelia Reid will always be a big part of what Reid-Hillview Airport is today. Ms. Reid flew airshows starting in 1966. She was a veteran pilot with an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate.With over 40,000 flight hours, she was able to collect single and multi engine land and sea ratings, as well as glider and a type rating in a Citation CE-500. She was a Gold Seal flight instructor was rated for airplane, instrument and ground instruction. At the time of her death in 2001 she had owned and operated Amelia Reid aviation for over 40 years.
Before Ms. Reid started her flight school, she was a programming mathematician at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field. Ames Research Center is now occupied and managed by NASA. In the position of mathematician she utilized her Master's degree in mathematics which she received from San Jose State University. However when her son, Robin, was born in 1959, she quit her position at Ames. At that time Ms. Reid had been flying for years with a private pilot certificate and had 525 hours.
Wanting something to do as a part time job she decided to utilize her teacher's credential which she had received when she obtained her Bachelor's degree at Kearney State Teachers College in Kearney, Nebraska. On obtaining her commercial and flight instructor's rating she started teaching flying part time in 1960 at Reid-Hillview Airport for flying clubs and owners of aircraft. Her services were so much in demand that she had to buy her own airplane, a Taylorcraft L2, to teach her students. Her fleet grew from this one Taylorcraft to over 25 planes. The school to this day still issues pilot ratings from private, commercial, instrument, multi-engine, and aerobatic training. Ms. Reid's specialty was teach aerobatics and taildraggers.
During her years of flying airshows, Ms. Reid performed in various airplanes such as the Citabria 7KCAS, Decathlon 8KCAB, Pitts biplane, and a Cessna 150 Aerobat, which is a stock factory airplane with a Continental 100 HP engine and no fuel inverted system. The crowd attention getter was always her butterfly sequence which was a series of swooping diving and climbing turns with 40 degrees of flaps performed at low level near the runway.
Her son, Robin, is following in his mother's footsteps. He received all of his ratings from his mother up through his Airline Transport Pilot. Robin along with his wife Marici still own and manage Amelia Reid Aviation continuing the long history of Reid's at Reid-Hillview Airport."
http://www.reidhillviewairport.com/R...ameliareid.htm
"Amelia Reid will always be a big part of what Reid-Hillview Airport is today. Ms. Reid flew airshows starting in 1966. She was a veteran pilot with an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate.With over 40,000 flight hours, she was able to collect single and multi engine land and sea ratings, as well as glider and a type rating in a Citation CE-500. She was a Gold Seal flight instructor was rated for airplane, instrument and ground instruction. At the time of her death in 2001 she had owned and operated Amelia Reid aviation for over 40 years.
Before Ms. Reid started her flight school, she was a programming mathematician at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field. Ames Research Center is now occupied and managed by NASA. In the position of mathematician she utilized her Master's degree in mathematics which she received from San Jose State University. However when her son, Robin, was born in 1959, she quit her position at Ames. At that time Ms. Reid had been flying for years with a private pilot certificate and had 525 hours.
Wanting something to do as a part time job she decided to utilize her teacher's credential which she had received when she obtained her Bachelor's degree at Kearney State Teachers College in Kearney, Nebraska. On obtaining her commercial and flight instructor's rating she started teaching flying part time in 1960 at Reid-Hillview Airport for flying clubs and owners of aircraft. Her services were so much in demand that she had to buy her own airplane, a Taylorcraft L2, to teach her students. Her fleet grew from this one Taylorcraft to over 25 planes. The school to this day still issues pilot ratings from private, commercial, instrument, multi-engine, and aerobatic training. Ms. Reid's specialty was teach aerobatics and taildraggers.
During her years of flying airshows, Ms. Reid performed in various airplanes such as the Citabria 7KCAS, Decathlon 8KCAB, Pitts biplane, and a Cessna 150 Aerobat, which is a stock factory airplane with a Continental 100 HP engine and no fuel inverted system. The crowd attention getter was always her butterfly sequence which was a series of swooping diving and climbing turns with 40 degrees of flaps performed at low level near the runway.
Her son, Robin, is following in his mother's footsteps. He received all of his ratings from his mother up through his Airline Transport Pilot. Robin along with his wife Marici still own and manage Amelia Reid Aviation continuing the long history of Reid's at Reid-Hillview Airport."
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From: Zambia
terror is firmer,
BIG respect! Those 13 hours will be etched in your memory forever. Unlike your 3,429th, which will probably fade into obscurity.
Moi? I have 300ish and no type rating (G'iiz a job?)
regards from the kitchin
BIG respect! Those 13 hours will be etched in your memory forever. Unlike your 3,429th, which will probably fade into obscurity.
Moi? I have 300ish and no type rating (G'iiz a job?)
regards from the kitchin
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From: A GOOD PLACE TO FLY, DRINK, **** AND SLEEP.
Zzzzzzzzzz......
It only takes so long before feeling that counting hours is pointless. When going for an ATPL or something it feels like an achievement sure. Does it matter if you have 5000 or 15000.
Its what you do in those hours thats interesting.
What do people put in the remarks collum?
Would like to her about some of these comments.
It only takes so long before feeling that counting hours is pointless. When going for an ATPL or something it feels like an achievement sure. Does it matter if you have 5000 or 15000.
Its what you do in those hours thats interesting.
What do people put in the remarks collum?
Would like to her about some of these comments.
With MY reputation?
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From: Not fussed, as long as it's "Child Friendly"
I bet most of you can match my TT so far, a BIG FAT ZERO...
It's nice to jumpseat once in a while but that'll do for me, I'm quite happy doing my bit on the ground and leaving the flying to the guys who want to/can afford to/could afford to until they got an ATPL/etc...
PHX
It's nice to jumpseat once in a while but that'll do for me, I'm quite happy doing my bit on the ground and leaving the flying to the guys who want to/can afford to/could afford to until they got an ATPL/etc...
PHX