average 973hrs/year
 

i just had dinner with one of my friends who works for air china 737.over the dinner he told me an information make me shocked .there are about 200 captains in his department .and the average flight time of those guys last year were 974 hrs(air china limit is 1000 per 12 months and 100 per calender month ,270 per 3 month.).and they start to count the flight time from the moment of start first engine till shut down engines.

Looks like some emerging East African countries... 1000h/year 110/30days... :zzz:

Flew 900 block hours with some European Flag Carrier subsidiary in 2008. Legally...
If they set a limit, why not going up to ?

The way they count down helps building hours, you can remove 5mins per flight to achieve our definition of "block hour" : From the moment ACF start moving on its own power till it's stop"

With an average of 500 flights per annum, you're saving 40/50 hours. Not that far from JAA limits then.

Well, under the Old Queen it was 100 hours per month and then you could have a quick medical and go on to do another 20 hours if you passed.

When I flew with a Part 121 carrier in the 1980s it was 100 hours per 30 days on domestic flights and 120 hours on international routes with the proviso that you couldn't do more than 300 hours in a 90 day period.

I think it was only with the advent of JAR Ops that the new 900 hours per year came in.

Given the number of advertisements recruiting aircrew for China that are posted each and every day by dozens of agencies, I do not see what is shocking in the fact that the crew already there are flying up to the legal limit.

It would be shockingly inept on the part of the airlines if they were not :hmm:

Not to mention that does guys from Air China fly sectors not greater than 3 hours flight time. So they do around 30+ landings a month

Old man was flying 1200h a year before his retirement from a European national airline, a maximum at that time. I have consistently in the last years reached 900h or close to it.

984 per year avg over the last 3 years in a loco in India. cap that off with 6 on 1 off sked and less than 20 days vac per year. The term 'sh*tty job' becomes a relative term.

Loving your job arentcha?

Thats nothing Qatar 777 Pilots now expected and are flying 1000hrs factored per year so in actual fact were flying 13/1400 and we can only log half on return sectors when two crews carried ie. MEL. IAH. IAD. JFK. GRU.

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vpcaptain

That's the limit I work to Irishpilot1990. Never reached it though - max has so far been 650 hours per year. I supposedly work at an airline with poor t&c's!

And the true winner of the game is the one who reaches retirement with the least hours accumulated.