On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:45:12 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

Or, put another way, it's four 1-hour hamburger flights per week, every
week, all year long...

Is this slightly low Jay? 1/2 hour each way? My hamburger runs are
minimum 1 hour each way, which would reduce it to 2 hamburger flights per
week.

You are right, 200 hours a year is an awful lot of flying. You had me
curious for me, how much in a year I fly, and it was as follows:

2001 11.7
2002 49.5
2003 142.2
2004 192.9
2005 126.4
2006 4.0

I try to fly once a week at minimum myself and no less then one hour air
time when I fly.

I was told ground runs is one of the worst things you can do to an airplane
engine, as it was designed for sustained high RPM operations, not ground
run RPMS.

Allen