Most Flight Hours In The Last 12 Months

Rocky said:
Part 91 VFR Pipeline Patrol. My routes are the same every week. Sunday I log 5 hours, Monday 7, Tuesday 6, Wednesday 8, Thursday 5, and then I fly skydivers on Saturday and get anywhere from 3-6 hours on Saturday. So I fly 31 hours a week minimum, and that number never changes. Then I log whatever on Saturdays when I fly skydivers, so usually anywhere from 30-35 hours a week.

A guy I work with flies his route on Sunday 6hrs, Monday 9hrs, Tuesday 6hrs, Wednesday 7hrs, Thursday 10hrs, Friday 8hrs, and only has one day off a week. So he logs minimum 46 hours a week. Plus he does cloud seeding on the side, and does safety piloting for some of the old guys around here, and picks up extra stuff from other routes when people call in sick so he logs a ton of time. I've filled in for him when he's gone on vacation before, and his routes are brutal.
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Oh yea. Got it. Thanks.
 
Am I the only one that has a goal of retiring with less than 10,000 hours?

That's about 220 hours a year for the next 35 years for me. I think I can do it.
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I am with you. My goal is to get paid as much as I can for doing as little as I can.
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Rocky said:
Part 91 VFR Pipeline Patrol. My routes are the same every week. Sunday I log 5 hours, Monday 7, Tuesday 6, Wednesday 8, Thursday 5, and then I fly skydivers on Saturday and get anywhere from 3-6 hours on Saturday. So I fly 31 hours a week minimum, and that number never changes. Then I log whatever on Saturdays when I fly skydivers, so usually anywhere from 30-35 hours a week.

A guy I work with flies his route on Sunday 6hrs, Monday 9hrs, Tuesday 6hrs, Wednesday 7hrs, Thursday 10hrs, Friday 8hrs, and only has one day off a week. So he logs minimum 46 hours a week. Plus he does cloud seeding on the side, and does safety piloting for some of the old guys around here, and picks up extra stuff from other routes when people call in sick so he logs a ton of time. I've filled in for him when he's gone on vacation before, and his routes are brutal.
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See guys, we were all over him for nothing!
 
CFIT99 said:
( I flew 527 hours in a 4.5 month period and was reaching my breaking point)
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That's kinda funny you mentioned that, us pipeline pilots were talking about this on 122.75 today. About how we're used to flying these kind of hours and it not bugging us. I suppose if we came from somewhere where we were flying 800 hours a year then we might feel it, but we're used to it. In fact it doesn't seem bad at all when we're getting off work in time to go to the school and pick our kids up on most days. Even on my long days, Mon and Wed I'm off no later than 4pm. So it doesn't seem so bad.
 
mshunter said:
I can think of three types right off the top of my head.

#1, CFI at a VERY busy school.

#2, Traffic watch

#3, Flying jumpers at a BUSY drop zone.

But I'd like to know where it's being done as well.
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I didn't know that traffic watch gave very many hours. I remember years ago when I first got out of school I applied for a job doing traffic watch up in Chicago. I can't remember the hours exactly but they wanted me to fly something like 7am-9am and 4pm to 6pm, and they were only going to pay $10/hr:eek:
 
Rocky said:
I didn't know that traffic watch gave very many hours. I remember years ago when I first got out of school I applied for a job doing traffic watch up in Chicago. I can't remember the hours exactly but they wanted me to fly something like 7am-9am and 4pm to 6pm, and they were only going to pay $10/hr:eek:
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Was 5.5 hours/day, 5 days a week and an extra 4 hours on Saturdays when it was football game day. Was making about $21-22K/year back in 1993 when I was doing this. For a single guy, few bills, $350/month studio apartment.....it wasn't a bad gig.
 
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