Originally Posted by
UAL T38 Phlyer
In 2005 or 2006, I was in the FBO at Montgomery, AL. On display in a glass bookcase were the logbooks of a local pilot who had recently retired. There were a slew of them. I can't remember his name, but I remember what he did.
He flew J-3s doing pipeline-patrol, I think 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, 4 and a half weeks per month, for multiple decades....maybe 30 years. I think that would be Part 91, and I think he retired when he was in his early 60s.
He had over 60,000 hours. Granted, it wasn't fast, it wasn't very high, it wasn't glamorous, and he probably didn't make much...but it was an amazing total.
That's almost 7 years not touching the planet.
That's one way to build time.
Yea its actually well over 60k hours... I flew at my last company with a guy who knows/knew him and said he was the most humble guy you ever could imagine.... had to put a few down in fields over the years... and did alot of scud running... but he was the consummate pilot according to my friend. I thinks that display is a "montgomery first aviation" or something like that.