Over 31.6 Million Hours of Flight Experience!

[Falcon Capt]

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???

[English]

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



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

:)

[LJDRVR]

6000 hours is average? With 6200, that means I'm just barely above average! :laugh:

[English]

OK, who brought the curve down? :)

[mar]

Our average member...

Is this a comparison we really have to make?

:blink:

[DC8 Flyer]

OK, who brought the curve down? :)

I guess that would be me :crying:

[UAL78]

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

[Gofish]

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

[thedude]

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

:)

Are you sure that is the real reason :001_tongue:

[Flying Illini]

OK, who brought the curve down? :)


I guess that would be me :crying:


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...

[Floater]

I'm the one who consistently disappoints with a mere 2000 hours. Talk about inadequate!

[Geronimo4497]

OK, who brought the curve down? :)

You're Welcome! :pimp:

[Falcon Capt]

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...

[Milehigh6080]

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.

[Lostdog65]

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

[mar]

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:

[Lead Sled]

Is that 5,000,000 hours of experience or 1 hour of experience repeated 5,000,000 times? :smartass:

[UAL78]

Well, you know what they say...

Since you know what they say, will somebody please tell me?:detective:

[PilotMikeTx]

Remember, half of us are always below average.

[TonyC]

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.


:)



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[Gofish]

I made the top 10 percent of my senior high school class possible !! :)

[phx767]

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



Arithmetic Mean
The most commonly used type of average (http://www.mathwords.com/a/average.htm). To find the arithmetic mean of a set (http://www.mathwords.com/s/set.htm) of n numbers, add the numbers in the set and divide the sum by n.

Formula:http://www.mathwords.com/a/a_assets/arithmetic%20mean%20formula.gifExample:For the numbers 4 and 9,
http://www.mathwords.com/a/a_assets/arithmetic%20mean%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 (http://www.mathwords.com/a/arithmetic_mean.htm) of the two middle numbers.

[TonyC]

Remember, half of us are always below average.






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 (http://www.mathwords.com/a/arithmetic_mean.htm) 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.


:)






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[phx767]

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:

[TonyC]

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. :)






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[mar]

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.

[Lear Wanna Be]

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:

[Groundpounder]

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.

[Flyerjosh]

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

Is that what they call it these days? :001_tt2:

[U-I pilot]

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

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