DGP Posted October 20, 2019 Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 Many years ago working some major fires the guys running the show would ask how many hrs you wanted to fly...some guys were doing 14hrs...I was doing 10...in 1989 I did some big hrs in July and Aug. I remember getting a week off. I will go look up those days and get back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGP Posted October 20, 2019 Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 Looked it up..lots of 8.8...9..only a couple of 10's...did well over 200 hrs from July3 until Aug 15th...I got a couple of weeks off and then went back out and was slinging hose melons off of some huge fires that had finally been rained out...did that for almost 3 weeks....5-6 hrs a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGP Posted October 20, 2019 Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 When I was doing that work I landed and shut down for lunch..before firing up i did a short walk around the ship...I had a bunch of string from tying up these melons wrapped around the pitch links on the tailrotor..a little safety briefing followed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nacreous Posted October 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 I started looking through my log books and found the highest day was a 13.3. That was on a tree planting job and part of 43.2 in 4 days. I found 4 or 5 different weeks in the 50 - 60 range on either large fires or tree planting but the busiest was 68.9 in 7 days and I ended up with 99.5 hours on the 12th day, It was a large tree planting job with about 50 planters and a lot of distance between the various blocks so there was always work to do. I was happy to be that busy with a Bell 206 at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nacreous Posted October 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2019 Thanks for your keen observation, maybe try reading the initial post again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilot83 Posted October 27, 2019 Report Share Posted October 27, 2019 38 minutes ago, Nacreous said: Thanks for your keen observation, maybe try reading the initial post again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosstube Posted October 27, 2019 Report Share Posted October 27, 2019 For me it was 18.8 hrs done in a 26 hrs period during the Uranium rush in 1980 up in the Arctic. With that comes a little bit more than 700 landings and take-off for the day doing sole samplings. Add many days in between 12 and 15 hrs .Done with a B206L Off course that was way before the new CARs CT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilot83 Posted October 27, 2019 Report Share Posted October 27, 2019 Hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladestrike Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 I think I actually did 16 hours one day but don't have that logbook with me. I tend to remember things wrong, or so the wife tells me. I do recall doing 180 hours in 19 days back in the 80s, inertial nav survey. 180 was the limit in 30 days so I had to stop early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluethunder Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 53 minutes ago, Bladestrike said: I think I actually did 16 hours one day but don't have that logbook with me. I tend to remember things wrong, or so the wife tells me. I do recall doing 180 hours in 19 days back in the 80s, inertial nav survey. 180 was the limit in 30 days so I had to stop early. I was doing the same kind of work in 1984 (inertial nav), my last gig in the business. I was wrenching with Lakeland back in those days. I got to work all night since the chopper flew from sun up to sun down. A 500D on the Prairies. Some 'big-***' gyro operated box in the rear compartment that use to take an hour to get spinning before you could lift off. I'm betting an iPhone could do the job of all those gyros now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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