I'm currently in Narita doing my semi annual sim check as well as a few other things. I was reviewing my logbook for 2013. Anyone want to guess how many landings I made in 2013? How many landings have you made in 2013?
I'm gonna guess you did 175 landings Will look tomorrow to get a ballpark idea of what I did. The most intensive flying period I ever did was June-Sept of '07 when I flew just over 400 hours in four months. Basically flew Quatar to Afghanistan and back every other day during that period w/ 3 landings every flying day. Nowdays my schedule is much more relaxed and probably half my time is as an evaluator and get zero seat time.
No idea on how many landings. I did zero. o/t Our 13 year old son just became nuts about flying. He loves your airplane !!!!!!!! Have fun .
For you I'm guessing 200 ( 2 rotations a week ??) for me 167......( you would think I would be better at it )
I don't keep a log book as its tracked by the military.... Of course it's more of a hassle than I thought to actually pull up the numbers myself. What was easy to pull was hours for 2013 which turned out to be a whopping 267.4 which probably works out to be around 170 landings. Now that I'm thinking about things I'm gonna revise my guess for you. Unless you do a lot of pilot proficiency stuff in the sim I'm guessing you maybe did around 60 landings for the year but probably have way more hours than I do as you do long haul type stuff.
Some good guesses. My landings for 2013..... 29 (less than 3 a month!) That doesn't count the simulator, where I did 11 landings in 2013. Longest stretch between landings. 34 days I flew 89 flights for 510 loggable hours. We split the 3 man crew hours by 2/3. So a 12 hour flight is 8 hours logged. I actually piloted 29 of the 89 flights....for the 29 landings. Excluding taxi in and out, I typically fly about 5 minutes on takeoff before putting on the autopilot, and maybe the last 10 minutes before touchdown. So 15 mins X 29 sectors = About 7 hrs for the year! And I'd say I hand fly a lot more than most guys here. Off to the sim.....
Lou- I had the same number of take-offs and landings in the olden days. That is the important statistic and more than I could say for some of my friends, one of whom ejected twice, including a mach 2 ejection. He quit. Third time is not a charm.
I was thinking he stops in Alaska on the way to Japan...so two landings per trip, 4 per rotation...and yes we where way off LOL
