to 10,000 hours!

Question:
Will the next 10K go by-

Choices:
A. as fast as the first
B. Faster
C. Slower
D. Quit while I am ahead

 

Nice flying.

Hard ot vote on that. Never did make the twenty mark. Ended up qith 18, and I think the second period went faster for me. It was enough to totally burn me out on flying, but that's what long range night freight will do to you.

14,000+ for me and I'm glad I got out due to my neck injuy at 48. I can not imagine how bad it is now based on what my friends who are still flying for the red tail tell me.

I think anyone who makes 10G without killing themselves has done well....especially someone always on the edge like Mississippian flying Ag planes or the pilots of bush planes in Alaska etc.

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I think anyone who makes 10G without killing themselves has done well....especially someone always on the edge like Mississippian flying Ag planes or the pilots of bush planes in Alaska etc.

This is true but I am certain flying airlines or frieght is no walk in the park either dealing with busy airports and bad weather!! At least I dont have very far to fall!! I still love this flying as long as everything is working properly (especially the Air Conditioner!) and we are not too far behind.

i've made it to 3830 some odd.....and haven't logged any for over a year now....congrats!!!!

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This is true but I am certain flying airlines or frieght is no walk in the park either dealing with busy airports and bad weather!! At least I dont have very far to fall!

Yeah, those approaches into Bogota in the whale in the middle of the night with CB's all quadrants surrounded by cumulo-granite and working really lousy ATC will get to you after a while. Did me, anyway. It was never boring, though.

Certainly the experience of people like jetdrvr is a good bit more dicey than a lot of us civilian flyers experience.

Those who accumulate 10G (personally I am above 12G) flying between 4000+ ft runways in the US is much less of an experience.

Perhaps like someone who has been on 5 dangerous game safaris vs. someone who has been to South Africa 5 times.

Nevertheless, I would bet that anyone who passes 10G under any circumstances has had 4 or 5 instances that things could have gone either way.

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(personally I am above 12G)

Wow! Palmer, I thought you were an Architect? Did you accumulate this much time playing in that Citabria or were you a Pro Pilot at some point?

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Of late I been looking at it as a wasted life

What could I do differently so I do not feel the way you do at 18K if I am blessed enough to make it that far!

No not a pro - not by any means.

However between 1970 until 1996 I wore out an Aztec (well it was half wore out when I got it), a Piper Turbo Arrow, a Bonanza V35B (actually I wrecked that one), and a Baron (which I wish I still had).

I flew in a 21 state area for my work and it seemed that I was in the air practically as much as on the ground - day and night - any weather that was reasonably safe and some times when I should have stayed put.

Often I would be in Baton Rouge in the morning, Chicago at night then the next day to Bluefield WV or some such stupid schedule.

When the plane was in for repair or inspection I rented something and kept flying.

This was mostly boring simple flying not what you and others on this forum do or have done.

I finally got tired of the travel and bought the Citabria just for goofing around.

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and a Baron (which I wish I still had

I bet you do.
That's a slick little airplane. Real Cadillac.

Yep, those Barons are mighty fine. Got a nice one that flys into Yazoo every Thursday and every Thursday if I am around I droul!

Thats interesting. Speaking of lusting after things....

Yazoo City was one of my old stops. I was there when presidential candidate Jimmy Carter came to the local high school to speak.

He was repaying a favor to the president of Mississippi Chemical (may not be the right name) for coming to his rescue publicly after Carter got in hot water for mentioning that he sometimes "lusted after women"!

I also remember taking off from Yazoo, turning right (way too low but it was back when you could pick up a clearance from the air if you were VFR) and flying up the Mississippi while waiting for a clearance from Memphis and going right through a big flight of Canadians who were going South. Never touched a one.

That was before I came to Yazoo. The Airport has since been moved west of town a few miles and MS chem is now Terra. I would hate to have a mid air with a Canada goose! I had a Mallard come through my side plexi(3 pc windshield with plate glass in middle and 2 side plexi panels) this spring screaming across a field at about 160mph. My ANR was not enough to dampen the wind noise!

A goose can ruin your day.

Back during the 60's before United took over Capitol, Capitol was flying Vickers Viscounts. One night, a Viscount hit a goose with the horizontal stab. Brought the airplane down with the loss of all hands. You were very lucky.

Kudos to what jetdrvr says:
We had a DC-9 out of HOU on climbout and hit a flock of Canadas - I know what they were because part and parcel of three was removed here in ATL!
One went through the radome and lodged between the firewall and the insulation blanket, another hit the leading edge of the wing and was stopped by the wing spare and I don't recall for sure what/where the third bird strike was. And supposedly one was injested and the JT8 just passed it right on through.
I can tell you things were tight for a while, per the crew. Oh, we condemned the seat covers from the cockpit also!

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Oh, we condemned the seat covers from the cockpit also!

Yeah, particularly the portions that had to be surgically removed from the cockpit crew...

Well lets see...
I have a couple of hours in a Mooney in Mexico...

I flew 4 or 5 hours in Zimbabwe....

I have flown about an hour or so in a Bell Jet Ranger [helicopter]...

Plus a "few minutes" here and there in other stuff...

I am still alive, and I do not even have a license.

That 4 or 5 hours in Zim can be compared to 40 or 50 stateside. African flying, particularly in light aircraft, is quite dangerous, but not as dangerous as flying scheduled African carriers..

Allen, if you "only" had 4 or 5 incidents in 10,000 hours you definitely led a charmed life - plus had to be a great pilot. Of course your inverted incident should count for a dozen.
I have something over 12,000 hours and seem to be scared most of the time.

458Win, You better get to flyin cause Im catching up! Logged another 930 this summer and am looking to buy a cub so now I will be counting in the winter as well!

Nothing builds time like a Cub.

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Originally posted by Mississippian:
That was before I came to Yazoo. The Airport has since been moved west of town a few miles and MS chem is now Terra. I would hate to have a mid air with a Canada goose! I had a Mallard come through my side plexi(3 pc windshield with plate glass in middle and 2 side plexi panels) this spring screaming across a field at about 160mph. My ANR was not enough to dampen the wind noise!

Did the mallard have a band? Cuz THAT would be a good story.