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Old December 12th, 2007, 01:57   #5
Hacker15e
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Default Re: Hours a year by service, airplane, and rank

There are so many angles to your question that it would literally take everyone posting a spreadsheet of their hour and sortie count for every year they were on duty to answer your question.

You'd also have to take into consideration how flying hours have changed/grown in the post-9/11 world with NOBLE EAGLE CAPs going on for stateside ANG and AD units, as well as the significant increase in sorties to deployed units supporting the GWOT. Fighter guys who have deployed to Iraq post 2003 will have many more hours than people who flew the same jet and did not deploy because of the LONG sortie durations.

In the F-15E, I have averaged 132 sorties and 238 hours per year over about 5 years as a Captain and Major.

In the T-38, I averaged 192 sorties and 175 hours per year over about 3 years as a Captain.

Again, there are so many variations in these numbers that it's impossible to really draw any conclusions. There were non-flying TDYs to schools like SOS, there were groundings due to Hurricanes, I had one long-term DNIF, etc.
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