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.

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

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.

Yes, good point timmay. I was thinking about that the other day. I'm gonna do some "Jethro cyphering" and see how I am doing.

Anyone else care to share this statistic?

 

[jimpilot]

Big Dog1

Love the Avatar

 

[Yeah]

Yes, good point timmay. I was thinking about that the other day. I'm gonna do some "Jethro cyphering" and see how I am doing.

Anyone else care to share this statistic?

$311 per hour here... for a co-pilot.

 

[matthewjohn]

Im about 4 months w/ about 2 flights. I am starting to get nervious. But mgmt says "everything is great and we are starting to use the plane for only exec travel now." Nice if that was true, but not too sure.

 

[NCherches]

The longer you go the more up to date your resume should be ... in most cases!

 

[LXApilot]

720 hours this past year... About $114 per flight hour. CE560/650 PIC

 

[LXApilot]

And I'd say a six day stretch would be the longest

 

[NCherches]

You get paid by the hour?

 

[flyzimex]

You get paid by the hour?

I'm assuming they all divide their monthly/annual salary divided by hours flown monthly/annually .

FZ

 

[NCherches]

In that case I make 500+ per hour

And I still don't make enough for these Scottsdale girls!