Flight Time Rodeo!

[Hawkdriver81]

Ladies and Gentleman,

I'm curious. What do you conisder a good year for flight time in your service and airframe?

When you go out for a training or real mission what would you say your average flight time is?

Army
UH-60
Good: 550-600
Average: 400
Flight: 4.5


Nate

 

[Huggy Bear]

That's quite a bit.

For a hornet

250-300+: good
200-250: average
<200: light

 

[MasterBates]

HSL- SH60B

300-400 good
Average 300
<200 OPSO Hates You
Flight @ Boat: 3.5
Flight @ Home:2-3.5

I got 203 last FY, 112 of which was FCF.

 

[MasterBates]

Over a 48 month tour between RAG and Fleet squadon, if you make 1000 in model you are doing outstanding.

We "feast" on deployment, and when you are not deployed it is a "famine".
FY 03 I flew 65 hours in the 60B, 105 in the TH57.
FY 04 I flew 350 hours in the 60B (Gulf Deployment)
FY 05 I flew 92 hours. (Punishment for being broght home from deployment)
FY 04 I flew 203 hours (I was the senior HAC, and have a metric asston of quals)

 

[Hawkdriver81]

The "feast" or "famine" seems to be standard for all the services then.

The deployments tend to inflate our numbers a bit and I wasn't around prior to them so I'm not sure what a normal year was but I have heard plenty of folk say they barely made thier mins of roughly 96 hours a year.

Oh, and I'd take <200 if they let me fly a hornet

 

[HercDriver]

Coast Guard
HC-130
Good: 550 annual
Average: 480
Deployment in So. America: 80 hrs for two weeks (feast), otherwise 40 hrs per month
Trng flight: 2.5 hrs
LE patrol: 6 to 8 hrs

 

[e6bflyer]

Wow! 480 is a pretty good average. Do you get to spend a lot of time at home in CG hercs?

E-6B

Good: 450 annual
Average: 375 annual
3 week "deployment": about 80 hours flight time, 20 special crew.
Training flight: 5 hours
Mission flight: 8-11 hours (up to 12 plus)