Old/Young Pilots+Helos = ???

[HOSS 1]

Reading the "Old Pilots" thread got me thinking about another interesting question for all you ppruners.

What number do you get if you take your age and add it to the age of your current rotory wing aircraft?

I'm curious to hear the story of the highest, and perhaps more interesting, the lowest combined number.

You?

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[whatsarunway]

Well four years ago , i was twenty and flying a brand spankin ec120, so that would be twenty i guess

now im twenty four im flying a twenty year old 222
so that would be fourty four.

god how time flys when you're being underpaid!

[206 jock]

75 for me: 41 with a 34 year old JetRanger

[John Eacott]

Me plus the oldest 206 I have?

90

We're both hanging in there......

[HOSS 1]

Oh, and by the way,

Mine's 91, and I'm under 40. (just barely )

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[belly tank]

Me 27 plus B206 at 6 years old would make it 33!

couple of years ago i was flying a 206 which was 34 years old so combined was 59!

[PPRUNE FAN#1]

The aircraft I currently fly was originally built in 1972. But it has been completely rebuilt (reborn?) a couple of times since then, most recently in 2000. Since I myself was "born again" in 1985, can we legitimately claim 23?

No?

Dang, I guess it's 82 for us then.

[Ascend Charlie]

Me plus the Huey makes 94. Me and the 47 makes 95.

Oh, the creaking of them bones....

[SASless]

Gramp's Huey and me....95....me and the N3N....I flew yesterday....121 years!

[rotorboy]

Me and the 500D 27 + 24 = 61
me and the 2 week old as350B2 = 27
Me and the vairous as-350's somewhere between 30 and 40

RB
how about pilot hours and airframe hours?

[Vfrpilotpb]

RB,

Your trying to be older than you need!, next one of you will be asking, " Does my bum look big in this"

[HOSS 1]

how about pilot hours and airframe hours?

I thought about that, but was afraid we'd get too many newbie robbie pilots flying newer machines. Wouldn't quite be the same as a 500hr guy flying a new S-76C+...

I think whatsarunway's score of 20 with a EC-120 is rather commendable.

So on the geezer end of the scale, we've got Ascend Charlie in the old Bell. The fact that either of them still work is simply amazing!


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[Shawn Coyle]

Two years ago I was flying an S-55 that was made in 1955. I was 52, and it was 47, so that made us 99. This year, if they fix it, we'd be 103....

[HOSS 1]

Two years ago I was flying an S-55

IGOR !!!!!

[whatsarunway]

cheers hoss, i had a score of 17 if you count robbies but i thought 20 would win me the prize, by the way what is the prize? fake beard would be nice, stop people asking -

' eh so , how long you been flying then?'

[rotorboy]

hey wait a minute, I though this was what your currently flying, if were talking robbys and infant stages, i can go back a few years

rb

[Canadian Rotorhead]

...if were talking robbys and infant stages...

Here's an infant stage pilot for you...

My son born last week.

Hey, at least the PJs suit the topic.

[Lama Bear]

1967 UH-1H
1945 Dummy

116 What a contest to be in!!

[SASless]

Fine lookiing young'un there....hope you paddle his behind everytime he looks at a helicopter!

[Canadian Rotorhead]

Thanks,

It is scary to think what will be flying through the sky 20 years from now.
Canada will no doubt still be deciding on what to replace their Sea Kings with

RH