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

Dockjock · Post by **Dockjock** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:55 pm

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".

cheers great thread

teacher · Post by **teacher** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:14 pm

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.

Speedbird Junior · Post by **Speedbird Junior** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:43 pm

Yesterday, in a PA31, somewhere near 108 Mile House!

Hopefully the 2000 mark will be somewhere a little more exotic!

TG · Post by TG » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:46 pm

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...

Must have been in one of those

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

2000hrs in a B-18. Also landed alone

Incomming 5000 in a.....??? Pub afterward!

Jim N · Post by **Jim N** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:34 pm

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....

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:23 pm

Where was I when I reached 1000 hours?

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

Do I even have 1000 hours?

Cat

Go Guns · Post by **Go Guns** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:40 pm

At 1000 hours I was cruising around Northern Manitoba in a Bandit. Hour 1002 looked like this out the window.

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....

. . · Post by **. .** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:55 pm

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

Mine wouldn't be nearly so scenic.

Ernie Cryinghead · Post by **Ernie Cryinghead** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:03 pm

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.

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:09 pm

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?

Cat

Check your log book.

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

-istp

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:13 pm

Yeh, ISTP keeping a log book like everything else is something that varies from individual.

Some people faithfully record every flight and others record total times.

I would like to read my early log books especially the first ones, but sadly one of my wifes must have either kept them or burnt them so all I have is the memories of long ago flights.

For the past several decades I have recorded fu.k all because in the business we are in we get enough paper work so I see no reason to do something that is not mandatory such as keep a personal log book.

And as far as total time goes it really does not mean all that much, what counts is the kind of flying and how good you are at it.

So far I have not been charged with any aeronautical offenses , I have never had to fill out a damage report and I have not kicked the living fu.king shit out of some TC inspector ...yet..

Cat

planett · Post by **planett** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:44 pm

Just took a look at my logbook;

1000 hours was in the comments along with instructing exercises 16-18 and 24. I couln't tell you what that means now. It was just over a decade ago.

2000 was flying bags over the Maritimes.

3000 was sked or freight over the eastern arctic. It may have been called Nunavut by then.

4000 was northern MB.
5000 was northern SK.
6000 was northern MB.
7000 was high above southern MB.

Lurch · Post by **Lurch** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:23 pm

planett wrote:Just took a look at my logbook;

1000 hours was in the comments along with instructing exercises 16-18 and 24. I couln't tell you what that means now. It was just over a decade ago.

Ex. 16 Take offs
Ex. 17 Circuits
Ex. 18 Landings
Ex. 24 Instrument

cheyennell · Post by **cheyennell** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:17 pm

My 1000 hour mark was flying a BE10 between Inuvik and Aklavik...it's like a 0.4 flight that I didn't quite make the day before, just shy of like 0.2 but then when we went out the next day I did it! It felt so good, and my captian was happy for me, but it was funny as no one else really cared... It was sort of like having a birthday and no one took you out! So make it a big deal as it really is a big deal!

Shady McSly · Post by **Shady McSly** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:53 pm

At 1000 hours I was with your mom, a mile up.

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:06 pm

SETTLE DOWN!!

just curious · Post by **just curious** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:03 pm

At 1000 hours I was with your mom, a mile up

Well sport, if you passed a ride with my mom, you must be good,'cause she was mean on checkrides.

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:09 pm

Somewhere between Sept-Iles and Blanc Sablon in this airplane.

PT6-114A · Post by **PT6-114A** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:51 pm

"At 1000 hours I was with your mom, a mile up. "

thats funny

zero · Post by **zero** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:00 pm

That looks like the bridge in Victoria Harbour, no??

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:03 pm

zero wrote:That looks like the bridge in Victoria Harbour, no??

Yeah, GYP is now with Pat Bay. Back then (1969) it was owned by Northern Wings.

Sideshow · Post by **Sideshow** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:50 pm

Teaching VOR north of Pitt Meadows at 4000ft...
With a defered transponder and a 737NG below me.
I made special comments in my Log book that day.

MRO · Post by **MRO** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:14 am

Line Indoc on the 206 up north...about 6 months ago

the professional · Post by **the professional** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:46 am

Taxxing real slow on a late friday afternoon on the last flight of the day. Looking at my watch I needed 6 more minutes. It was a good party that night - any excuse will do eh boys!

Brantford Beech Boy · Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:37 am

1000 hr - somewhere over the Pang Pass enroute YVM-YXP in a BE99
2000 hr - either in YTE or YLC in a DHC-6
3000 hr - missing YXP in a BE99
4000 hr - Freight run YVO-YFB in a B727
5000 hr - Between MBPV and MDPP in a DHC-6
Should pass 6000 hr next week.

Cheers
BBB