[Rhodes22-list] Brad--Flight Time

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

Slim,

Speaking of time off, when are bound for Florida again to see your mother?  I may be able to sync on of my trips and take you out on Tampa Bay.  Actually any skippers plan to travel south.  The winter sailing is mighty nice.

Art

-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 19, 2008 5:45 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Brad--Flight Time
>
>Hank,
>
>We got most of June, July and August off although each year they seem to
>creep further into June.  Then approx two weeks off for Christmas/New Year,
>a week off at Easter/Spring break and another 6 or 7 miscellaneous days for
>Presidents Day, convention day, MEA, and a few others I can't remember.
>Maybe it's a bit more than 8 months but less than 9.
>
>Rik,
>
>Wow!  What do you do with all your spare time?
>
>Brad,
>
>In my business, like many others, there's a trend to hire younger and thus
>lower paid performers.  We old Jedi Masters have to keep being more and more
>masterful to stay ahead of the kids.  There ain't no seniority thing.  There
>is a musician's union but it's just for certain jobbing gigs like the
>symphony, the circus band, broadway shows and the old guy who plays the
>organ at the ball park--I hope that's me some day.
>
>Slim
>
>On Feb 19, 2008 8:35 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Slim,
>>
>> Around 25,000 hours is in the ballpark (I'd have to pull-up the latest
>> printout from the company). I spent a few years teaching in the 727 and
>> the
>> last few teaching in the DC-10 and don't fly that much during the teaching
>> gigs.  We are limited to 1000 hours of "hard time" a year but you only
>> approach that if you fly international (I don't do that anymore, been
>> there,
>> done that, got plenty of cheap T-shirts from all over the world). My guess
>> is that "time on duty" is about double what the flight time is, especially
>> if you fly domestic. Experience counts for a lot, but only if there is a
>> learning curve to go with it.  I'd like to think my skill-set is still
>> improving with age but there comes a time when the 'ole eyes' and other
>> body
>> parts don't react as well as they used to.  That's when the "old bull,
>> young
>> bull" operating modus comes into play to make-up for the difference. One
>> benefit of being a 'senior' pilot is that you don't have to screw around
>> with the rheostats in the cockpit anymore - you just crank all the lights
>> to
>> full bright and then complain about the dimmest bulb.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Feb 19, 2008 5:49 AM, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Brad,
>> >
>> > The History Channel is playing "History of the Joke" hosted by Lewis
>> Black
>> > and he's interviewing all these many comics on all the many aspects of
>> > comedy.  One of the segments referred to experience and they were
>> talking
>> > to
>> > Penn and Teller.  Penn said that when you look at a pilot, the first
>> thing
>> > you look at is his flight time hours.  He then equated his "flight time
>> > hours" as an important part of the success of a comedian.  Like anything
>> > else, experience is important.
>> >
>> > So just for the hell of it I've tried to calculate my "hours."  I'm
>> > starting
>> > with my first full-time band that I joined when I was 25 years old.  I'm
>> a
>> > music major grad and I'm in my first full-time professional music job.
>> >  Like
>> > you, I started performing for money when I was still a teenager--I'm not
>> > counting that.  I'm not counting my college gigs, not counting commuting
>> > time, not counting rehearsal time (biggie), I'm not counting break time,
>> > not
>> > even counting the few years I was a public shool teacher--just flight
>> > time--when I'm in the air and have control of the airplane.  In other
>> > words,
>> > on stage.  I haven't gone through all my years with a fine toothed comb
>> > and
>> > made any exact totals but in very round numbers I think I have about
>> > 25,000+
>> > full-time, professional hours of actual "flight time."
>> >
>> > Now, for professionals like Elle, a teacher, her flight time hours will
>> > exceed that by many fold.  Give flight time hours a shot, Elle.  You
>> > probably teach 6 units a day, we're not including preps (sorry--I have
>> > more
>> > prep hours than anybody--I started "prepping" for my job at age 5.)  I
>> > know
>> > you put in more than 40 hours/ week but let's just start there.  40 X 4
>> > weeks is 160 hours a month times 8 months is 1280 times (guessing) 30
>> > years
>> > is 38,400 actual flight time hours.  Am I close?  I don't know if I'll
>> > catch
>> > up to you before I'm retired--or dead.
>> >
>> > How many hours have you logged?
>> >
>> > Slim
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