Over 31.6 Million Hours of Flight Experience!

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09-26-2006, 19:00:37
Falcon Capt

Over 31.6 Million Hours of Flight Experience!

Our membership has a combined flight experience of 31.6 Million flight hours!!! :thumbup:

Our members have an average of over 6,333 Flight Hours each! :thumbup:

A virtual wealth of experience! :2thumbup:

That is the equivalent of 3,160,000 hours per $1.00 of your membership fee!

Where else can you get that kind of experience at that price???
09-26-2006, 21:12:31
English

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by Falcon Capt

Our membership has a combined flight experience of 5,000,000 flight hours!!! :thumbup:

OUCH....5,000,000 hours? No wonder my butt hurts!

:)
09-26-2006, 21:25:21
LJDRVR

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

6000 hours is average? With 6200, that means I'm just barely above average! :laugh:
09-26-2006, 21:32:54
English

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

OK, who brought the curve down? :)
09-26-2006, 22:04:20
mar

Does it *matter*?

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Originally Posted by Falcon Capt

Our average member...

Is this a comparison we really have to make?

:blink:
09-26-2006, 22:37:17
DC8 Flyer

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by English

OK, who brought the curve down? :)

I guess that would be me :crying:
09-27-2006, 01:17:55
UAL78

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

I guess we're implying that our members are distinguished!:thumbup:
09-27-2006, 03:48:48
Gofish

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

Checking in at 1800 TT I guess I brought the curve down. Sorry :)
09-27-2006, 04:35:01
thedude

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by English

OUCH....5,000,000 hours? No wonder my butt hurts!

:)

Are you sure that is the real reason :001_tongue:
09-27-2006, 06:52:17
Flying Illini

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by English

OK, who brought the curve down? :)

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Originally Posted by DC8 Flyer

I guess that would be me :crying:

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Originally Posted by Gofish

Checking in at 1800 TT I guess I brought the curve down. Sorry :)

Got y'all beat, 1700hrs!! :oops: Hmmm, in most places, bringing the curve down is a good thing.

Give me 20 years...
09-27-2006, 07:01:49
Floater

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

I'm the one who consistently disappoints with a mere 2000 hours. Talk about inadequate!
09-27-2006, 07:21:59
Geronimo4497

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by English

OK, who brought the curve down? :)

You're Welcome! :pimp:
09-27-2006, 08:44:39
Falcon Capt

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

Actually everyone who enters their flight time brings UP the curve! The code that does the calculation takes the flight time from each persons profile, adds them together and divides by the total number of members... If you haven't entered your flight time, it is counted as 0 but the program is still using you in the "divide by" calculation...
09-27-2006, 14:40:31
Milehigh6080

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by Falcon Capt

Actually everyone who enters their flight time brings UP the curve!

Very diplomatic.

Now I'm going to go back to crying about my paltry 2700 hours.
09-27-2006, 16:02:31
Lostdog65

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

So I guess my momma was right...I am special! I'm above average at 6700 hours...just barely above average!

When I saw the 5 Million mark I was like, "Holy Logbooks Batman!" Man...we've got a lot of time boring holes in the sky...:rockon:

Eric
09-27-2006, 20:59:35
mar

5,000,000 Hours of pure boredom

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Originally Posted by Lostdog65

Man...we've got a lot of time boring holes in the sky...

Yeah, but I wonder how many seconds of sheer terror do we have?:scared:
09-28-2006, 08:41:33
Lead Sled

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

Is that 5,000,000 hours of experience or 1 hour of experience repeated 5,000,000 times? :smartass:
09-28-2006, 13:13:43
UAL78

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

Well, you know what they say...

Since you know what they say, will somebody please tell me?:detective:
09-28-2006, 14:41:32
PilotMikeTx

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

Remember, half of us are always below average.
09-28-2006, 14:51:22
TonyC

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by PilotMikeTx

Remember, half of us are always below average.

Well, not exactly.

Consider the following series of hypothetical members and their hours:

Andrew : 10
Barbara : 10
Charles : 10
Denise : 10
Edward : 10
Francis : 10
George : 10
Harriet : 10
Ian : 10
Janice : 1,910

Together, the 10 members have 2,000 hours, or an average of 200 hours each. Nine of the ten are below average.

:)

.
09-28-2006, 15:01:22
Gofish

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

I made the top 10 percent of my senior high school class possible !! :)
09-28-2006, 15:02:06
phx767

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

I'm sure this is what you meant by average... :)

Arithmetic Mean
The most commonly used type of average. To find the arithmetic mean of a set of n numbers, add the numbers in the set and divide the sum by n.

Formula:http://www.mathwords.com/a/a_assets/...%20formula.gifExample:For the numbers 4 and 9,
http://www.mathwords.com/a/a_assets/...%20example.gif

Median of a Set of Numbers
The median of a set of numbers is the value for which half the numbers are larger and half are smaller. If there are two middle numbers, the median is the arithmetic mean of the two middle numbers.
09-28-2006, 15:41:51
TonyC

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by PilotMikeTx

Remember, half of us are always below average.

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Originally Posted by phx767

I'm sure this is what you meant by average... :)

...

Median of a Set of Numbers
The median of a set of numbers is the value for which half the numbers are larger and half are smaller. If there are two middle numbers, the median is the arithmetic mean of the two middle numbers.

While the median makes a closer fit to "half of us are below" generalization, if still fails to meet the test 100% of the time. It would be accurate to say at most, half of us are below the median, and at most, half of us are above the median. If there is an odd number of us, at least one of us will be equal to the median. Even if there is an even number of us, many of us could be equal to the median. Only if there is an even number of us, and nobody is equal to the median, could we say that half of us are below the median.

:)

.
09-28-2006, 21:18:40
phx767

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by TonyC

Consider the following series of hypothetical members and their hours:

Andrew : 10
Barbara : 10
Charles : 10
Denise : 10
Edward : 10
------------(inserted by phx767 for ease of counting)------------------
Francis : 10
George : 10
Harriet : 10
Ian : 10
Janice : 1,910

Together, the 10 members have 2,000 hours, or an average of 200 hours each. Nine of the ten are below average.

So the median of this set of numbers is.... 10?

:confused:
09-28-2006, 21:29:30
TonyC

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by phx767

So the median of this set of numbers is.... 10?

:confused:

Yupp.

:)

And as you ponder this apparent quandry you gain valuable insight into how we can claim to be able to "prove" anything with statistics. I'm sure you've heard the adage that there are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. :)

.
09-29-2006, 02:26:40
mar

Semantics

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Originally Posted by TonyC

I'm sure you've heard the adage that there are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics.

That's strange because I recall learning this stuff in college but we called it "sadistics".

I want my money back.
09-29-2006, 13:24:58
Lear Wanna Be

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by Falcon Capt

Our membership has a combined flight experience of 5,000,000 flight hours!!! :thumbup:

Man, wish I had stock in Texaco or Exxon/Mobile. Think of all the fuel burned in 5.07M hours. That is just for 829 pilots too.

Going to be awhile before we have more posts than hours!!!:001_tt2:
10-01-2006, 08:53:30
Groundpounder

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

Um yeah I think I'm the lowest time PPW member.

Wait, can I count time I spent working as a line guy? I might be able to catch up to you guys.
10-01-2006, 09:56:12
Flyerjosh

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

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Originally Posted by UAL78

I guess we're implying that our members are distinguished!:thumbup:

Is that what they call it these days? :001_tt2:
10-08-2006, 12:21:50
U-I pilot

Re: 5,000,000 Hours of Flight Experience!

Groundpounder got me beat..... im at 800....

If only I would get used on reserve..... A problem im sure many people would ENJOY!:whistling: