Are pilots not flying for most of their work days? 3500 hours seems minuscule to me. I had 20,000+ hours in WoW when I quit after less than 15 years of playing, and at least four of that was from when I was in high school with extremely limited playtime. I have 1600 hours in Elite Dangerous, which I have only been playing since 2020, and I haven't seriously touched it in maybe 2 years.
A 40 hour work-week at 50 weeks a year (-2 for vacation at a guess) is 2000 hours. If I assume that a pilot is only flying for half of his day, 4 hours, then that's 1000 hours a year of flying, for 18 years, which should be 18,000 hours of flight time. 1/4 of his day, two hours, would be 9,000 hours of flight time. A single two-hour flight every day seems like nothing when I compare it to bus drivers or OTR truckers.
How much time are they actually spending per day flying an airplane to log flight time if it takes nearly 20 years to still get less than 4000 hours? Specifically, how long has that pilot actually been flying a plane compared to just "working for Endeavor."
It does say he was an instructor, and the FAA requires different types of flying logged as different categories. Journos are know-nothing English majors. If Delta only reports their pilots' hours flying actual commercial flights, and this guy spends most of his time flying as an instructor, it would explain the discrepancy. Guaranteed the Journo didn't even think to ask that type of question, just rewrote Deltas press release.
Are pilots not flying for most of their work days? 3500 hours seems minuscule to me. I had 20,000+ hours in WoW when I quit after less than 15 years of playing, and at least four of that was from when I was in high school with extremely limited playtime. I have 1600 hours in Elite Dangerous, which I have only been playing since 2020, and I haven't seriously touched it in maybe 2 years.
A 40 hour work-week at 50 weeks a year (-2 for vacation at a guess) is 2000 hours. If I assume that a pilot is only flying for half of his day, 4 hours, then that's 1000 hours a year of flying, for 18 years, which should be 18,000 hours of flight time. 1/4 of his day, two hours, would be 9,000 hours of flight time. A single two-hour flight every day seems like nothing when I compare it to bus drivers or OTR truckers.
How much time are they actually spending per day flying an airplane to log flight time if it takes nearly 20 years to still get less than 4000 hours? Specifically, how long has that pilot actually been flying a plane compared to just "working for Endeavor."
It does say he was an instructor, and the FAA requires different types of flying logged as different categories. Journos are know-nothing English majors. If Delta only reports their pilots' hours flying actual commercial flights, and this guy spends most of his time flying as an instructor, it would explain the discrepancy. Guaranteed the Journo didn't even think to ask that type of question, just rewrote Deltas press release.