[Rhodes22-list] Brad--Flight Time

[Rik Sandberg]

Slim,

Just in *pure* flight time??? 'Bout 50,000, probably a bit conservative.

2.5 million miles / 50 mph average

Of course, not counting:
loading the truck, unloading the truck, fixing the truck, washing the 
truck, doing the paperwork for the truck, maintaining the shop, 
plowing/shoveling the snow, cleaning the toilets, keeping the gov't 
happy, or listening to the help whine. That's probably another 60,000 of 
"prep" time.

Ha ha,... the race track (7 years) was even more productive. 3 hour show 
once a week took about 37 hours of "prep" time (just me). 20-25 shows 
per year. Fit that in between trucking.

Kinda embarrassing actually, that I invested this much time and *this* 
is all I've got to show for it. :-)

Rik

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Hank wrote:
> Slim,
>
> Where did you go to school that you only went 8 months?  Here in
> Maryland it is almost 10 months that are kids are in school.
>
> Hank
>
> On 2/19/08, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Brad,
>>
>> The History Channel is playing "History of the Joke" hosted by Lewis Black
>> and he's interviewing all these many comics on all the many aspects of
>> comedy.  One of the segments referred to experience and they were talking to
>> Penn and Teller.  Penn said that when you look at a pilot, the first thing
>> you look at is his flight time hours.  He then equated his "flight time
>> hours" as an important part of the success of a comedian.  Like anything
>> else, experience is important.
>>
>> So just for the hell of it I've tried to calculate my "hours."  I'm starting
>> with my first full-time band that I joined when I was 25 years old.  I'm a
>> music major grad and I'm in my first full-time professional music job.  Like
>> you, I started performing for money when I was still a teenager--I'm not
>> counting that.  I'm not counting my college gigs, not counting commuting
>> time, not counting rehearsal time (biggie), I'm not counting break time, not
>> even counting the few years I was a public shool teacher--just flight
>> time--when I'm in the air and have control of the airplane.  In other words,
>> on stage.  I haven't gone through all my years with a fine toothed comb and
>> made any exact totals but in very round numbers I think I have about 25,000+
>> full-time, professional hours of actual "flight time."
>>
>> Now, for professionals like Elle, a teacher, her flight time hours will
>> exceed that by many fold.  Give flight time hours a shot, Elle.  You
>> probably teach 6 units a day, we're not including preps (sorry--I have more
>> prep hours than anybody--I started "prepping" for my job at age 5.)  I know
>> you put in more than 40 hours/ week but let's just start there.  40 X 4
>> weeks is 160 hours a month times 8 months is 1280 times (guessing) 30 years
>> is 38,400 actual flight time hours.  Am I close?  I don't know if I'll catch
>> up to you before I'm retired--or dead.
>>
>> How many hours have you logged?
>>
>> Slim
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