OK, I'll bite... I'm taking this from my flight log books, so it is in order of first time I flew the type and then added the sub types...
Boeing 737-200/300/400/500/700/800/900
Boeing 727-100/200
Douglas DC 8-50/70
Boeing 747-100/100M/200/300/300M/400/400M/SP
Douglas DC 10-10/30
Lockheed L1011-1/250/500
Douglas DC9-30/50
McDonnell Douglas MD80/81/82/83/87/88
Boeing 757-200
Boeing 767-200/200ER/300/300ER/400ER
Sweringen Metro
NAMC YS-11
Airbus A310-200/300
BAE 146-200
Dehavallind DHC 8-100/200/300/400
Fokker F28-1000/4000
Jetstream J31
Beechcraft 1900
Beechcraft 1300
Dehavallind DHC-7
Boeing 707-320
Saab SF340B
Airbus A320-200
Airbus A300-100/600/600R
Aerospatiale ATR-72
Fokker F-100
Boeing 777-200/200ER/300/300ER
Canadair CRJ-100/900
McDonnell Douglas MD-90
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
Airbus A330-200/300
Airbus A340-300/500/600
Embraer ERJ-!40
Airbus A319-200
Eurocoptor AS 350
Avro ARJ-100
Boeing 787-8
Airbus A380-800
Right - as I have an almost complete reckoning of the flying I've done, I can actually break it down - I'm missing an estimated 400 registrations from when i was younger, but all up it's a little over 2200 individual scheduled segments, a little more if you add joyrides, and nonscheduled. That makes me quite old
The most flown type is the 777-200 and 200ER variants with 399 rides so far.
Will add the QR346, QR788, Comair ZA 73H, Mango 73H in the next 2 weeks - so something new to add.
Am regrettably still on a single 727 ride and missing the concorde, 707, 747sp and DC8 amongst others. The rest of it is here:
727 SQ
737-100 SQ
737-200 MH,BA(comair ZA),SA and MJ, EF
737-300 PMUA, LH, MI, GA, NZ, RG, U2, FD, AK, MU
737-400 MH, TG, BA (comair ZA), BA mainline, QF, DD, GA
737-500 MH, LH, PMUA
737-600 SK
737-700 AR, RG
737-800 Non Winglet DJ
737-800 Winglet TK, MH, GA, DJ, QF, KE, FY, SA, DD, AA, PMCO, SK, NH, OD
737-900ER ID, OD, JT
Plus I've flown in a Britten norman Trislander on some joyride flights, worked on a Cessna 206 Amphibious for a few months, rode a pair of citation (a C3 and C7) like a mad fool over the course of 3 weeks
As well as a few Bell 206, a single Aerospatiale AS365 dauphin ride and last but not least quite a few ultralight flights.
Right - as I have an almost complete reckoning of the flying I've done, I can actually break it down - I'm missing an estimated 400 registrations from when i was younger, but all up it's a little over 2200 individual scheduled segments, a little more if you add joyrides, and nonscheduled. That makes me quite old
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What an amazing list!
You should highlight the one where you had to wear the oxygen mask!
You should highlight the one where you had to wear the oxygen mask!
Oxygen mask flight with free decompression (now everyone can breathe less air!) was 25 May 2010 on AK739 from BKK (yeah suvarnabhumi back then) to KUL.
Oxygen mask flight with free decompression (now everyone can breathe less air!) was 25 May 2010 on AK739 from BKK (yeah suvarnabhumi back then) to KUL.
Registration was 9M-AHG and my seat was 14F
Amazing record keeping, SQflyergirl, very akin to symptoms of COD.
Amazing record keeping, SQflyergirl, very akin to symptoms of COD.
It is not akin to OCD. It IS OCD
Jokes aside - there was one time my obsession actually had a practical purpose and saved me a bit of money as my complete set of records actually helped me prove tax residency (or rather, lack thereof)
That trip, a conducted tour of the USA by a new defunct but much beloved tour agency, Ken Air (If you remember that, I can probably guess your age), was memorable as well for the huge number of domestic sectors flown on 727's, on airlines such as Eastern Airlines, Western Airlines etc. I will always remember Eastern Airlines because the pilot on one of the flights was quite kid-friendly and let me sit in the cockpit of a 727 after we landed.
do you remember the name of your blue and white shirt-clad tour escort?
up until the mid-90s, US airlines took children on tours of the cockpit and gave them wings. you could even ask for stationery on domestic flights. all that's history now
Yes, in fact I do remember the name of the Ken Air Tour Manager on our tour! It was too cold on that trip to wear the signature blue/white Hawaiian style Ken Air shirt, though. He is the gentleman in the suit on the far right of the picture below, which I took on the tarmac after some of our tour group deplaned from the front stairs of an Eastern Airlines 727.
Yes, even back then I was taking pics on the tarmac
On that same flight, just before deplaning, the very friendly pilot treated all the kids in our tour group to a 727 cockpit tour...love the cockpit with real dials and the large numerals "1", "2", "3", above the engine panel...
Yes, in fact I do remember the name of the Ken Air Tour Manager on our tour! It was too cold on that trip to wear the signature blue/white Hawaiian style Ken Air shirt, though. He is the gentleman in the suit on the far right of the picture below, which I took on the tarmac after some of our tour group deplaned from the front stairs of an Eastern Airlines 727.
Yes, even back then I was taking pics on the tarmac
On that same flight, just before deplaning, the very friendly pilot treated all the kids in our tour group to a 727 cockpit tour...love the cockpit with real dials and the large numerals "1", "2", "3", above the engine panel...
priceless memories indeed it was an era when children really fell in love with aviation and became true blue #avgeeks. a salute to the pilots of eastern, twa, northwest, etc who instilled in children a lifetime love of civil aviation.
did you collect any exotic-looking timetables from hotel lobbies during your tour?
in the states, it was a pre-911 world when you could greet loved ones at the very disembarkation gates.
you should organize some of your vintage photos into a slideshow and/or a picture book one of these days
priceless memories indeed it was an era when children really fell in love with aviation and became true blue #avgeeks. a salute to the pilots of eastern, twa, northwest, etc who instilled in children a lifetime love of civil aviation.
did you collect any exotic-looking timetables from hotel lobbies during your tour?
in the states, it was a pre-911 world when you could greet loved ones at the very disembarkation gates.
you should organize some of your vintage photos into a slideshow and/or a picture book one of these days
Yes, a very different era! I didn't collect timetables, but did amass a whole lot of plastic airline badges and other souvenirs. No longer have them though...discarded over the years -- something I regret now!
I never got to fly TWA or Pan Am, but I did get to fly Northwest several times before they merged with Delta.
Incidentally, the majority of the times I visited the cockpit inflight was on SQ flights, including on a 727.
Thanks, SQGamespeed! The pics were all on 35mm negatives and prints, 36 pictures to a roll, so I didn't snap quite as many pictures as I do now on my iPhone or digital camera.
Nice to know SQ also gave cockpit tours in the past! I've got friends who are SQ pilots now, but even if I ran into them on flights, I doubt current rules would allow them to invite me into the cockpit....
End of year, so look back at how much I had travel, just go into my Flightdiary.com.....
Number of flights I took was less then in 2014 (93 flights against 68), but distance clocked was 6450 less then 2014....
Likely will be flying less in 2016, don't know whether that is good or bad.... but guess that will leave me more time to spend at home to make sure my fish tanks are thriving....
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