Comment by alistairSH
7 months ago
That's only 90 hours/year. Not even 2 hours/week.
That may be common for an Army pilot, but for somebody expected to fly during wartime, transport VIPs under stressful conditions, etc that's pretty goddam minimal.
7 months ago
That's only 90 hours/year. Not even 2 hours/week.
That may be common for an Army pilot, but for somebody expected to fly during wartime, transport VIPs under stressful conditions, etc that's pretty goddam minimal.
Is that based on something other than vibes?
From what I can tell, that's the low end of average, but that's based on 5ish mins of fact-checking.
Vibes, I guess... 2 hours/week feels inadequate to maintain proficiency in a highly technical, high-stress role.
Seems that for a FAC 1, UH-60, 48 hours is required semiannually (every 6 months) and 12hr of sim can be applied to meet those flight time minimums. For FAC 2, it's 30 over 6 months, also allowing 12 hrs of that as sim time.
One source among many: https://helicopterforum.verticalreference.com/topic/24169-ar...
This is one of those situations where common intuition doesn't match reality. I've similarly been wrong in the past where my intuition was off wrt/ to hours on industrial equipment compared to their expected life.
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One part of an emergency plan is making sure people can back each other up and fill in if necessary. Which in practice means some people in backup / if-needed roles will be near the low end of whatever time minimums they need to maintain, yet still need to fly sometimes.