Originally Posted by
Vandal
Im a bum in the reserves and I am consistently getting about 400 hours a year...Pretty sure that's below what active duty guys are racking up over in the desert.
Throwing no darts, but I'd guess as a reservist you aren't spending much time doing non-flying 120s to the CAOC, writing OPRs/EPRs/Award packages, prepping ten million mobility folders, getting your masters, doing SOS in correspondance so you can go in residence, doing ACSC in correspondace you so can go in residence, non flying staff tours, etc.
In the 02-05 time frame our new copilots usually got 1000 their first year. It's easy to get 400 hours a year, it's not so easy to do that year in year out for a decade.
Though I'm happy to say I've done it. So my semi-smartassness aside you're right, it's possible.