[Rhodes22-list] Brad--Flight Time

[Brad Haslett]

Elle,

Just got back from my teaching gig.  You and I have the same "time in
saddle".  I've been flying for a living 33 years and in the industry 35.  I
don't (or didn't) feel old until an accomplished student showed up for duty
who is the same age as my oldest son.  I'd like to say to these kids that
"I've got more time taxiing to the runway than you've got total" but you got
to give them a fair shot at showing their skill set.  They're good!  They
look at me like I used to look at "the old heads", "whatever Grampa, I'm
here to cooperate and graduate!" They can outfly me on motor skills - I can
still throw cyberspace curve-balls they didn't see coming.  I don't cheat
and I play fair.  They don't get curve balls thrown at them that I haven't
been beaned by at some point in time.

Experience is a wonderful thing.  Having earned it sucks!

Brad

On Feb 19, 2008 6:57 AM, elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Actually 33 years, Slim...
>
> You're making me feel old....
>
> elle
>
> --- 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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