The most number of flying hours for a helicopter pilot

[AgustaGrand]

Hello,

 

I want to know what is the record for most number of flying hours for a helicopter pilot...

 

Thanks in advance,

Quentin

 

France

[Linc]

I don't know if it is a "record", but Robert Burns was recognized in 1999 for 30,000 hours flying Bell products without an accident. http://www.bellhelicopter.com/en/support/f.../pdf/awards.pdf

[AgustaGrand]

Thanks Linc ,

 

I know a french pilot who has 26000hours and i want to know if a pilot has more ??

 

I now know that yes !!!

 

Bye

Quentin

[dave7373]

In exclusively helicopters? I have a few friends in the 25,000 total time range but most are mixed helicopter and airplanes.

[AgustaGrand]

Yes !!

26000 hours => helicopters

6000 hours => fixed wings

 

Bye

[West Coaster]

About 5 years ago Vancouver Island Helicopter held a small celebration for a logging pilot of their with over 30,000 hours in helicopters. Can't remember his name though, just remember my jaw hitting the floor reading about it

[Falko]

30,000 hours in helicopters

 

 

There is a Designated Pilot Examiner named Dale M. I took my rides with him in 2006.

He started flying in Nam (Hueys), after Nam he stayed in the army. I don't know when he retired but the last thing he did was instruction in the CH47.

 

He told me that he quit logging flight time around 1996. At that point he had around 40.000+hrs.

I know that includes some fixwing but he mainly flew helicopters.

 

He also told me that he had 7 engine failures (single engine helicopters) but managed to walk away.

 

Falko

[C.R.O.]

There is a Designated Pilot Examiner named Dale M. I took my rides with him in 2006.

He started flying in Nam (Hueys), after Nam he stayed in the army. I don't know when he retired but the last thing he did was instruction in the CH47.

 

He told me that he quit logging flight time around 1996. At that point he had around 40.000+hrs.

I know that includes some fixwing but he mainly flew helicopters.

 

He also told me that he had 7 engine failures (single engine helicopters) but managed to walk away.

 

Falko

 

Did my checkrides with him as well, and he told me pretty much the same thing.

[IFLY]

I read about a lady that has over 57,000 hours and is the highest time pilot in the world. Its fixed wing but at least we know the top.

 

Jerry

[justfly]

I read about a lady that has over 57,000 hours and is the highest time pilot in the world. Its fixed wing but at least we know the top.

Evelyn Bryan Johnson, 57,635.4 hours!

 

One of the first female helicopter pilots, Whirly-Girl #20

 

 

...and she has a little time under the rotors of a flailing, burning helicopter too, saving the pilot, for which she was awarded the Carnegie Medal.

 

links:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-1...cordpilot_N.htm

 

http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/inst_...fm?article=8515

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Johnson

[Niteshade]

The pilot with the most flying hours is American John Edward Long. From May 1933 to April 1977 he flew 62 654 hours, achieving a total of more than 7 years airborne.

 

Albeit not rotary, but an impressive number regardless of how you're staying aloft.

 

From http://www.triviafactoids.com/2009/05/pilo...g-hours_18.html

[Jim Borger]

I have 37,500 hours accident free logged in helicopter.  I also have additional time in fixed wings.

 

[Luis Cendejas]

I got 16000 hours.  But my opinion it’s the number of landings in that time.  Like I said “it’s my opinion”.  I did 12 : 37 hours in a single day with 140 landings. Offshore  Thank you.