A momentus occasion

[Steve]

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

[Jay Honeck]

> 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"

[Tony Cox]

"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]

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??
>
>

[Tony Cox]

"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.

[Mike Rapoport]

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.
>
>
>

[Steve]

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??
>
>

[Paul Folbrecht]

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
>
>

[Jack Davis]

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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