Seth Posted October 23, 2014 Report Posted October 23, 2014 Yesterday I hit 1000 TT. It was during my flight back to home base through some IMC conditions and an approach where I broke out about 2000 AGL. Good X-Wind landing, felt very accomplished. Here's to the next 1000 hours. -Seth 11 Quote
bonal Posted October 23, 2014 Report Posted October 23, 2014 CONGRATS! Long ways for me to get there, looking forward to that kind of mile stone. Quote
1964-M20E Posted October 23, 2014 Report Posted October 23, 2014 Seth congrats. I'm about 350 behind you and working on catching up. 1 Quote
John Pleisse Posted October 23, 2014 Report Posted October 23, 2014 It was a pretty shitty day yesterday. Nothing like hitting the 1k mark landing in a Nor'easter. Hats Bro. Quote
Seth Posted October 23, 2014 Author Report Posted October 23, 2014 It was a pretty shitty day yesterday. Nothing like hitting the 1k mark landing in a Nor'easter. Hats Bro. Yeah, not the best day for flying, was tempted for the "no go" but decided after carefully laying out pros and cons that it was a go. Ended up being rather smooth actually for the amount of wind and direction. Just on the ILS final to LNS did it get really bumpy. I was glad I was on the ground at LNS during parts of the afternoon. Flight home was after some of the worst had cleared out. -Seth Quote
Marauder Posted October 23, 2014 Report Posted October 23, 2014 Yeah, not the best day for flying, was tempted for the "no go" but decided after carefully laying out pros and cons that it was a go. Ended up being rather smooth actually for the amount of wind and direction. Just on the ILS final to LNS did it get really bumpy. I was glad I was on the ground at LNS during parts of the afternoon. Flight home was after some of the worst had cleared out. -Seth Congrats! May the insurance rates be with you! BTW -- did you get on top? Was curious how high they really were. The skew-T had it layered to 5,000 if I recalled correctly. Quote
Danb Posted October 23, 2014 Report Posted October 23, 2014 Way to go...pretty nice sight seeing RW 8..heres to another safe 1000..... Quote
DrBill Posted October 23, 2014 Report Posted October 23, 2014 A great milestone !! I restarted in 2001 with 100 hrs, Today I'm at 684. Looks like at this rate, I'll need 5 more years to catch you. BILL 1 Quote
Jeff_S Posted October 24, 2014 Report Posted October 24, 2014 I'm closing in myself, but I keep buying faster airplanes which isn't helping anything! I guess I just have to go farther now. 1 Quote
cliffy Posted October 24, 2014 Report Posted October 24, 2014 Congrats!!!! There was a study done many years ago showing the risk of accidents to the hours flown and it went up steep until 1000 hrs topped out and started to drop after 1200 and went down slower than up after that. You're right at the hump but on your way down. Enjoy the ride. Fly safe. 1 Quote
Seth Posted October 24, 2014 Author Report Posted October 24, 2014 Congrats!!!! There was a study done many years ago showing the risk of accidents to the hours flown and it went up steep until 1000 hrs topped out and started to drop after 1200 and went down slower than up after that. You're right at the hump but on your way down. Enjoy the ride. Fly safe. I specifically made sure to use my checklist in a "don't mess this up now" and double check everything kind of way on my two flights. I landed at LNS with 999.9 hours so as I pulled out onto the runway for takeoff home is when I hit 1000. Actually at 1000.6 now. 1000 exact single engine and .6 multi. -Seth Quote
aviatoreb Posted October 24, 2014 Report Posted October 24, 2014 I specifically made sure to use my checklist in a "don't mess this up now" and double check everything kind of way on my two flights. I landed at LNS with 999.9 hours so as I pulled out onto the runway for takeoff home is when I hit 1000. Actually at 1000.6 now. 1000 exact single engine and .6 multi. -Seth Right behind ya buddy. Im around 825 now - incl around 3 of multi and 0.9 of glider. Quote
Hank Posted October 25, 2014 Report Posted October 25, 2014 Y'all make me feel better about my 700 TT and 0.5 ME Quote
aviatoreb Posted October 25, 2014 Report Posted October 25, 2014 It gets harder and harder to hit orders of magnitude milestones - 10 hrs easy. 100 hrs big step. 1000 hrs feeling matured but hold on don't get complacent or get to full of your abilities. 10,000 hrs - get another 7x7 type rating and worry about your airline employers retirement program. 100,000 I don't think anyone has ever done it. I read a big by John fried called "after the check ride". Highly recommend. Just full of sage flying advice and stories and ramblings by a former WWII pilot and lifelong cfi with 50,000 hrs. Quote
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