1000 hours! Where were you or where would you like to be.

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Post by captainsweaty »

awesome thread it was a blast to flip back through the logbook once again

1000 BE20 on a medevac to CYXD
2000 BE20 on a medevac to CYXD
3000 C208B returning to CYZF on the sked from CYLK
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Flying my PA28 around wishing I hadn't spent all the money on training for not!
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N2 , I think it was a wise decision NOT spending it on a sailboat.
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Hey, but then again sailboat fuel is a whole lot cheaper than avgas.
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Hour 1000 for me was shooting ILS Approaches in YHM. I was training for my intial multi/IFR on a twin Comanche. After working VFR only jobs for 2 years it was time to move on. Hour 2000 is fast approaching and it is hard to believe the journey I have been on in the last 1000 hours since I got my IFR ticket. Can't wait to see what the next 10000 have in store!
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Where would I like to be at 1000 hours? I've thought about it.

Ideally, doing a low and over at an airshow in my privately owned Spitfire.

That'll never happen, so I'll settle for 500 feet AGL in a float plane on a nice day.

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1000- Half-way between Inuvik and Aklavik. Low level in the delta. C207.
2000- Climing out of Slave Lake for Edmonton. Medivac F/O B200/1300
3000- Between Paramount Legend and Athabasca. Nice spring day.PIC PA-31
4000- Not sure. Passed it in early September. Capt. B200/1300 Medivac.

Now that I think about it. Time has flown by. There were days that I thought I would never see 4k. Some days were after a close call, other days because it seemed like such a huge number and I would never get there. Now 4k seems like peanuts. I work for a guy who has 22k+ and 8k of it is one single Navajo! Learning every day and still passionate about what I do. Man I love my job!! Can't wait to see whats next. :smt038
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I was flying a C-152 around in circles taking pictures somewhere between yxu and yfd, just after my 22 birthday in june 02. I still love my job it sure beats working for a living!
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Post by babybus »

Great thread!I had to go back 3 logbooks back but I found it.
Finding my 1000th hour should have been quick but I spent at least a couple of hours going through my old logbooks,remembering some of those flights,friends not seen for a long time,how my life was so different at each 1000hr, people in my life at the time.....
Pretty emotional thing that I hadn't done for a long time.

1000------Capt PA31 somewhere between YQB-YUL flying freight
2000------FO SW3 ,again between YQB-YUL
3000------BE1900 FO somewhere between YBG-YUL
4000------DHC8 FO, 68 hours later made it to the big leagues
5000------YHZ-YUL DC9 FO
6000------LAX-YYZ on approach in an A321
9000------B767 FO but dont know where......havn't done the logbook in a while
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McPhoo,
About the guy with 8000 hrs in one single 'ho, it reminds me of a story from Fate is the Hunter (I think).

A pilot is standing on the ramp at an airport watching the planes come in. A beat up old DC-3 is on approach and he marvels as the pilot brings it in beautifully, hold the tailwheel off while swinging the aircraft onto the ramp, only just letting it down almost as he stops in his parking spot. After shutting down, the pilot walks over to the DC-3 captain and says, "that was quite as display Captain. How much time you got in this thing?"
The old captain looks up to the sky, remembering....,"Oh about 9000 hrs", and then cocks his head over at another DC-3 parked a short distance away, "...and I got about 9000 in that one too".

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cheers great thread
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Post by teacher »

1000 hours: Flying from Boundery Bay to Courtenay Air Park in a 172 flying aerial telemetry.

2000 hours: Flying from Sault St. Marie to Oshawa building twin time with a friend.
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Yesterday, in a PA31, somewhere near 108 Mile House! :D

Hopefully the 2000 mark will be somewhere a little more exotic! :lol:
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Schooner69 wrote:Hour one thousand occured forty-five years ago in a single engine swept wing fighter somewhere over Germany in battle formation with three other beer drinkin' buddies. Oh, to be twenty-two again.

Oh, what the hell. I'd settle for forty... :lol:
Must have been in one of those :smt023

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Me, less glamorous but we celebrated my 1000hrs in flight and somehow I landed alone afterward ehehe...

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2000hrs in a B-18. Also landed alone :roll:

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Incomming 5000 in a.....??? Pub afterward!
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Broke the 1000hr mark hauling freight to YYJ for UPS. Actually, it was probably near Samuel Island on the empty return leg.

Passed 1500 flying somewhere between Dease Lake and Vancouver (maybe Smithers?).

2K ain't that far away...probably still be floggin the 'Ho to somewhere in BC. Part of the charm of the job is any guess I take on location is sure to be wrong....
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Where was I when I reached 1000 hours?

Fu.k I can't remember what I did yesterday.

Do I even have 1000 hours? :shockedbig:

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At 1000 hours I was cruising around Northern Manitoba in a Bandit. Hour 1002 looked like this out the window.
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Infact, I have that photo framed on the wall with an inscription that reads 'August 19th 2004 Hour 1002 "What a cool job!"' Courtesty of my Dad.

Hour 2000 was in a Beech 1900C enroute from Terrace to Vancouver at 23,000' and it looked like....

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you sure to get some nice scenery for your benchmark times.

Mine wouldn't be nearly so scenic.
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200 hours - Happy to be employed in aviation. Slightly unhappy that I am required to straighten bent nails with a hammer for the first week.

300 hours - A few 185 trips here and there. Got my PPC on the toilet scrubber brush that week too. (How is it possible for poo to be sprayed upward under the toilet seat?)

400 hours - Still riding the 185. Learned how to take apart a urinal and clean the last 10 years of scaled piss from the drainpipe.

500 hours???? - Hoping a new crop of toilet scrubbers are hired for next season so I can graduate to flying full-time.
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Cat Driver wrote:Where was I when I reached 1000 hours?

Fu.k I can't remember what I did yesterday.

Do I even have 1000 hours? :shockedbig:

Cat
Check your log book. :lol:

(An inside joke for those who have read of Cat's logbook theories.)

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