Originally Posted by
AZFlyer
Must have been very short flights, no? Sounds like quite a few hops for 200 hours over a year.
As an example, I was in the top 3 flight hours for all of my first 3 years as an IP and I topped out at 357 hours one year (got 350 two other years). They advertise that 250 hrs/year is the fleet average.
Monthly I never topped 40 hrs, but there were some where I didn't break into double digits either.
I'd say that probably 1.1-1.5 would have been an average per sortie over time if I had to guess.
USMCFLYR