A momentus occasion

This past tuesday, the cummulative flight hours between my grandfather, my
father, my two brothers and I just reach a total of 100,000 flight hours,
ranging from a Schweiser 2-22 glider all the way up to 747's and Gulfstream
V's

This past tuesday, the cummulative flight hours between my grandfather, my
father, my two brothers and I just reach a total of 100,000 flight hours,
ranging from a Schweiser 2-22 glider all the way up to 747's and
Gulfstream
V's

Wow -- congrats. That's 11.4 YEARS in the air! (And here I was feeling good
about having a month plus a few days in my logbooks...)

So is flying a 747 "really" flying, in your opinion? Or can you come up
with a formula that explains the difference, like "an hour in the glider is
worth three in the airliner?"
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:00:32 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

So is flying a 747 "really" flying, in your opinion?

I know you didn't ask my opinion but the answer is most definitely a
yes!


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"Steve" wrote in message
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This past tuesday, the cummulative flight hours between my grandfather, my
father, my two brothers and I just reach a total of 100,000 flight hours,
ranging from a Schweiser 2-22 glider all the way up to 747's and
Gulfstream
V's


Statistically, 1.4 of you should be dead by now then.
Any close scrapes??

Really? What is the fatal accident rate for airline and business jet
pilots?

Mike
MU-2


"Tony Cox" wrote in message
nk.net...
"Steve" wrote in message
. ..

This past tuesday, the cummulative flight hours between my grandfather,
my
father, my two brothers and I just reach a total of 100,000 flight
hours,
ranging from a Schweiser 2-22 glider all the way up to 747's and
Gulfstream
V's


Statistically, 1.4 of you should be dead by now then.
Any close scrapes??

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
nk.net...
Really? What is the fatal accident rate for airline and business jet
pilots?

Mike
MU-2


Too early in the morning for me. Yes, biz jets are safer. Figure
quoted was for a 182.

Still, be interesting to know of any close calls in that time.

Early here too :-). We tend to interchange the accident statistics on light
GA vs professionally flown turbojets even though the accident rate for the
latter is about 1% of the former.

Mike
MU-2


"Tony Cox" wrote in message
nk.net...
"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
nk.net...
Really? What is the fatal accident rate for airline and business jet
pilots?

Mike
MU-2


Too early in the morning for me. Yes, biz jets are safer. Figure
quoted was for a 182.

Still, be interesting to know of any close calls in that time.

A few close ones, but thankfully no lasting damage. The 5 of us have had a
few serious ones though. My eldest brother had to do a no gear landing in a
Baron (mechanic error). In the mid 80's, my grandfather flipped a turbo
beaver amphib (submerged log). I did a forced landing in a amphib caravan
about 3 years ago (broken planetary gear on the RGB, accident report said
mechanic error because the part was over-timed). I also had a tail srike
while doing aerobatics in my Pitts (still kicking myself after a year and a
half, fun rebuilding it though). My younger brother sheared the right wing
off of a 1-26 glider (dumbass..theres a tree there...) My dad had to do a
single engine landing in 1998 in a DC-9.
"Tony Cox" wrote in message
nk.net...
"Steve" wrote in message
. ..

This past tuesday, the cummulative flight hours between my grandfather,
my
father, my two brothers and I just reach a total of 100,000 flight
hours,
ranging from a Schweiser 2-22 glider all the way up to 747's and
Gulfstream
V's


Statistically, 1.4 of you should be dead by now then.
Any close scrapes??

My thought: "holy crap". That's just amazing.

I have almost 90 hours now. Yeah!

Steve wrote:

This past tuesday, the cummulative flight hours between my grandfather, my
father, my two brothers and I just reach a total of 100,000 flight hours,
ranging from a Schweiser 2-22 glider all the way up to 747's and Gulfstream
V's