How many flights in a day?
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I mostly get a single mission in on a Friday night when Mrs Zep and bambino Zep are fast asleep. This is the full shebang; agonizing over the plan (again and again), ramp up, fly, land, ramp down. Generally it takes around 2 hours or so. The level of mission success or failure greatly influences the mood I’ll be in going to bed :mrgreen:
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Zero, but in a few months I’ll be flying as much as I can.
…and I’ll be first in line to fly with ya! Wish you the best of luck in SK and look forward to flying with you. Sounds like you doing well, too bad you couldn’t take the Fam. Trusty Cougar still performs flawlessly with daily use.
Back on topic - I usually get in two flights a night 2-3 nights during the work week. On weekends, it varies. If I don’t have much going on I can get a lot of flights in. If I have stuff going on, I may not fly at all.
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Three here : two solo flights and one multiplayer flight per week. I figured out it’s what I need to keep proficient, and it’s the best I can do while still being a decent husband and a decent father.
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Even as a dev for BMS, you might feel this strange but…
I never fly! I maybe flew two TE this year for now, except some short beta tests for some very specific points… The rest of the time, I only make developement, which is in my case, much more fun than flying for now! I love indeed to model my dreams!
Regards,
Radium
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about 4 a week (time dependent).
Trying to finish off Korea Strong R-77 fest - dragging on a bit.
A lot of my time goes on setting loadouts manually for packages and squadrons - have an OCD thing about that.
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Even as a dev for BMS, you might feel this strange but…
I never fly! I maybe flew two TE this year for now, except some short beta tests for some very specific points… The rest of the time, I only make developement, which is in my case, much more fun than flying for now! I love indeed to model my dreams!
Regards,
Radium
Did that on another sim for years so totally understand.
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I treat it like the RL Air Force. I fly two training sorties to the range per day Monday thru Friday a couple of hours apart to stay sharp, and fly MP with my squad mates.
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@usafpga:
I treat it like the RL Air Force. I fly two training sorties to the range per day Monday thru Friday a couple of hours apart to stay sharp, and fly MP with my squad mates.
That’s actually, like, way more than any active duty USAF pilots fly. It’s hard to get a good figure, but I’ve generally heard that fighter pilots fly about 200-300 hours per year right now. Flying your schedule, and assuming your sorties are only one hour, your’re doing double that. Of course, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with what you’re doing, and I think the Air Force ought to fly more training sorties.
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Even as a dev for BMS, you might feel this strange but…
I never fly! I maybe flew two TE this year for now, except some short beta tests for some very specific points… The rest of the time, I only make developement, which is in my case, much more fun than flying for now! I love indeed to model my dreams!
Regards,
Radium
It’s intersting, I’m also developing a mod for another game.
While I was to tired for playing after work - when developing, I’m totally motivated and write for up to 5hours (until I notice that time passes by fast but I still hang on the same issue).All in all I have my cycle of 3 weeks. I am ~3 weeks flying flightgear, 3 weeks playing arma, 3 weeks flying falcon, 3 weeks playing some totally different games.
Per Falcon week I would say I make up to 4 flights (depending on how fast I get downed) and more specific two per day. -
Do to professional reasons i don’t get to fly much virtually. But to keep my skills up i try to fly twice a week. Usually i do plan a 1.5 hour sortie.
i try to alternate, so that at least once a month i have a night sortie, AAR, A-G, A-A and usually i combine it with some instrument flying.
But lately due to work i can go months without flying.
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@usafpga:
I treat it like the RL Air Force. I fly two training sorties to the range per day Monday thru Friday a couple of hours apart to stay sharp, and fly MP with my squad mates.
From what I know, there is not much countries with this kind of flight hours rythm…
Most of NATO/west block countries fly around 150~220 flight hours a year, while NATO norm is 180.
Here is some average statistics (this might change according to aircrafts flown) :
France : 180+/-
Japan : 200
UK : 180~200
Germany : 180+/-
Israel : 200+
Canada : 200+
China : 150+/-
Russia : 100+/-
South Korea : 135+/-So, I really doubt that USAF makes 2 sorties a day : let’s make some calculations :
Monday to friday makes 5 days,
A year has 52 weeks, this makes 260 working days.
In 2015, USAF had 7 federal holidays, so, it makes 253 working days.
Remove 3 weeks of average payed holidays in a year (like winter or summer), it makes 238 working days in a year…
So, with two sorties a day, it would make 476 flight hours a year, while the latest cuts in Air Force budget demanded to reduce to 120 flight hours a year most of pilot’s allowance… This makes exactly an average of 1 training every two days…
Just my little 100 yens on that point, which is nevertheless, really interesting, because checking reality might be sometimes surprising from the simulation point of reference!
Regards,
Radium
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schnidrman……is there a way you can give me your cougar set-up/ I can’t
seem to get mine to work smooooothly! -
schnidrman……is there a way you can give me your cougar set-up/ I can’t
seem to get mine to work smooooothly!Send me a PM and let me know what your having trouble with and maybe I can help. Nothing special about my set up other than the stick having the uber mod. Would like to get F$$B mod for the stick eventually.