Originally Posted by
L'il J.Seinfeld
I have a new friend with 3700 hours in the F-16. That's probably around 1500 sorties, which is another 450 hours.
More like 2400 sorties...we do a whole lot them without tankers. Which adds another 700+ hours.
And I wish we did a half hour debrief. Takes that long just to get the tapes cued. If we got credit for brief and debrief you'd have a 1000hours at the end of RTU.
I'm going to guess that for the average F-15/16 guy the average sortie duration is around 1.3-1.5, depending on how much time he's spent deployed. Adding .3 per sortie could add 250 hours (equivalent to an entire good year of flying in the fighter community).