Originally Posted by
contrails
Side thought, I am surprised at the total flight hours of both the captain and FO and around 8K and 5K respectively.
I mean no disrespect to their experience and I don't doubt they were competent aviators (outsider looking in but the MD-11 appears to have some issues) but had I been asked to guess I would have doubled each of their total times.
Interesting how certain sectors of the industry just do not have close to as much block time per year as others (that is not a bad thing).
FWIW, those flight times are probably only what they accumulated at FedEx, not what they had prior to date of hire or any additional hours (Guard/Reserves, Part 91). Checking my Fedex records only shows my flight hours at FedEx plus the 300 hours for the turbojet PIC to fulfill the high-mins requirement. None of my previous military or civilian hours are shown in the company's records.