How long have you gone without a flight? 91 only.

[pilotviolin]

Excluding scheduled maintenance, vacation, or personal leave, what is the longest time the plane stayed in the hanger with no flights? When do you start to get nervous?

I think my record in 17 days.

 

[big dog1]

28 days

 

[ILOVEBEER]

My first flight this year was on February 16th.

 

[con-pilot]

To be honest I really can't remember the longest time I ever had between flights.

However, I can tell you that the second month that I was with US Government I flew more in one month than I flew for the entire year in the corporate job I had prior to going to work for the Government.

Corporate- 98 hours for the year.

Government- 114 hours the second month.

(I average over 1,100 hours a year for the government. And that included two, two week long vacations a year, a couple of one week long recurrency training schools each year, a couple of three week long initial schools and an average of one week in the office every month.)

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

We shutdown every year for two weeks over Christmas/New Years. Now if we could just get that 4th of July week shutdown back i'd really have a hard time using my 4 weeks of vacation.

 

[Fblowjets]

Between the time we sold the airplane and I left for another job it was 377 days. Yup no lie. Got paid for nothing.

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Between the time we sold the airplane and I left for another job it was 377 days. Yup no lie. Got paid for nothing.

I think we have our winner.

 

[fu69atacafyeah]

I think we have our winner.

i was getting excited about my 29 day stretch but i cant compare!!

 

[flyzimex]

Between the time we sold the airplane and I left for another job it was 377 days. Yup no lie. Got paid for nothing.

I've got a couple of friends that are approaching your number. Their boss sold the 604 while waiting on a 605, and then sold the 605 before taking delivery to make some nice pocket change (for him at least, a fortune for anyone else).

They are getting paid and not really worried, eventually they will have a plane to fly. What I don't understand is why they don't do some contract work in the meantime. Extra money and stay current can't hurt.

FZ

 

[timmay]

My record was around 4 months, but the thing that I like to keep track of is my pay per flight hour. Last year I was 700 per hour so far this year Im around 1000 per hour.