Is anyone close to a full trip to the sun on Flight Memory?
 

So I think my Flight Memory stats are pretty respectable:
In Miles 760,006
In Kilometer 1,223,111
Earth Circumnavigation 30.52 x
Distance to the Moon 3.182 x

Until I get to Distance to the sun and I see:
Distance to the Sun 0.0082 x

That's not even a hundredth of a percent! Has anyone actually made it or is close?

You'll need over 17 years of cruise time at altitude to get that far. I seriously doubt this is possible unless somebody decided to spend their life in the air.

Perhaps if it were your job to do so... some kind of airplane "driver" or "conductor" who flies cargo and/or passengers for money.

93 million miles is a tough feat at 600 MPH.

I considered that--but how many hours a month does a pilot actually fly? Lets figure a 40 hour workweek like the rest of us. That means he's flying about 25% of the time so we have to multiply that 17 years by 4. We now have 68 years. That's longer than the time from when you can get a license to mandatory retirement. (And the reality is worse than that as I figured time at cruise. Time spent on the ground or at lower altitude doesn't rack up miles nearly as fast.)

The most I've ever heard of is Randy's 17 Million miles, which is nearly 20% of the way there. I doubt he'll keep it up at this rate for another 80 years or so.

I don't think it's possible.

(btw, you are well over a hundredth of a percent of the way there - you're approaching 1 percent)

According to FM, I'm currently at 2.8%

Aside from a handful of cosmonauts. ;) I think the longest manned spaceflight was equivalent to a roundtrip to the sun.

BIS??? Wow... The most I've heard of is ua1flyer's almost 10 million BIS on United, putting him at around 10%. Then again, he's probably flown other airlines in the past, also, although I'm guessing it would be a relatively insignificant number of miles.

I've got to ask, hope this doesn't bother you, but how old are you and how long have you been flying? You're FM makes me dizzy.

Only cosmonauts put up that kind of numbers, and
that's just because they're up 24/7 for a year at a time
at 17000 mph.
Not even close. The poster you quoted said
- this being 17 x 365 days x 24 hrs x 600 mph.

I thought that was total miles earnt, not BIS.

I want to flying into the space. I want to see exploring around of the world that actual I can see something.

The question is "How many miles have you flown in your life". I interpret the answer to be BIS, as I believe Randy knows we would call him on "flown" if he included credit cards, promos, etc.

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Sergei K. Krikalev - 3.57x, nearly two round trips, accomplished through 2 Mir stays, 2 ISS long-duration stays via Expidition, and two short shuttle trips to the ISS.

So that's longest total time for one person? The one I meant was Valeri Polyakov's record single trip, 186.9 million miles or almost exactly 2 A.U.

Does anyone else feel like Wikipedia has taken all the fun out of pedantry?