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k_jupiter Oct 20, 2011 1:19 pm


Originally Posted by Daniel-SYD (Post 17305418)
4149

If you're really bored, covert your flight time into how much radiation you're received in units of chest x-rays. I'm at around 23 (~20% error) YTD.

What is the conversion factor? I have 14 flights of an average of 10.5 hours.
Plus I didn't count the freebee SFO to FRA, nor my single DL cross country trip for personal use (never again). Average altitude? 36,000 feet? Over the upper Arctic (holes in the ozone)? As Monty Python would say... "I'm not dead yet".

And I got out of graphics arts because of the chemical dangers.

*L*

k_jupiter Oct 20, 2011 1:29 pm


Originally Posted by Jorgen (Post 17305682)
I seem to have an average of 2551 for this year.

Last year, I had 5255, though. But only in the rather trivial sense that I only took two United flights last year.

k_jupiter: Out of curiosity, do you do your domestic US flying on another airline? Or are your domestic flights cancelled out with a bunch of 6000+ milers? Or do you just not fly domestically in the US at all?

Will be making my second domestic business flight next week for this year, SFO-BOS. My usual trip is SFO-FRA or SFO-LHR. The other trip domestic this year was a DL vacation trip to ATL for a wedding. Missed those E+ seats.

Last year I had 19 segments for ~80,000 miles. None of those was domestic except when they had to route me through IAD after missing a connection in FRA.

tim in san jose

neuron Oct 20, 2011 1:42 pm

1994 EQM/segment

jsonman Oct 20, 2011 3:38 pm

This year

83,837 EQM
85.5 EQS

Average EQM per flight = 980.55

Wish I had longer flights than my DEN to SJC weekly round trip. Would of hit 1k on segments before miles if they never would of changed the qualfication to 120.

iluv2fly Oct 20, 2011 3:53 pm

195,890 EQM
82 segments

2,389 per

wilp888 Oct 20, 2011 4:30 pm

112,148 EQM
45.5 Segments

2465 per segment

CMK10 Oct 21, 2011 2:38 pm

Just MP:
EQM: 39,933
EQS: 41.5

EQM/Segment: 962

Adding in OP:
EQM: 42,433
EQS: 46.5

EQM/Segment: 912

Daniel-SYD Oct 27, 2011 10:50 pm


Originally Posted by k_jupiter (Post 17307866)
What is the conversion factor? I have 14 flights of an average of 10.5 hours.
Plus I didn't count the freebee SFO to FRA, nor my single DL cross country trip for personal use (never again). Average altitude? 36,000 feet? Over the upper Arctic (holes in the ozone)? As Monty Python would say... "I'm not dead yet".

And I got out of graphics arts because of the chemical dangers.

*L*

Hi k_jupiter, I'd have to redo the work - I threw it out after I discovered that even after ~210,000 BIS miles, I was well within "safe" limits. Aircrews get much higher exposures. I did account for location, air speed where possible, and used exposure/locality data from various research papers. It took a few hours and I was seriously bored.. :) I think roughly you're looking at 12hrs=1 chest x-ray. Though there can be lots of variance in either direction..

AUSshouldbeahub Oct 27, 2011 11:06 pm

Like 515 a segment. Vegas trip screwed up my perfect average:)

It's going to go up, I go to Denver next week and Chicago the week after. I could get to like 540 a segment or so

dukyluky Oct 28, 2011 10:15 am

Me..I have 56474 Actual Miles and 123 Actual Segments...yeah the rough way to earn 1K! Thats 459Miles/Segment with the 500 min I'm still only at 76K miles. I am a frequent flier!

mintirish Oct 28, 2011 11:30 am

48250 EQM / 45.5 segments = 1060 avg miles per flight. Almost half of my segments are SBN-ORD though which is only 84 miles so my number would be a lot less without the 500 miles minimum.

k_jupiter Dec 14, 2011 4:30 pm

Final for the year I think....
 
100,553 in 23 segments == 4371.9 miles per segment.

Last one a jaunt for the long weekend to Albuquerque with the GF.

1K for the year.

tim in san jose

Joshua Dec 14, 2011 4:43 pm

Who's right at 833 miles per segment (the "break even" point for 1K EQSs vs. EQMs)?

Asuka Dec 15, 2011 5:25 am

3401

The MEL-SYD-MEL segments kill me :(

Bring back MEL-LAX-MEL flights!

mahasamatman Dec 15, 2011 7:30 am

Our final tally for 2011:
100,004 EQM
36.5 EQS
2,740 EQM/EQS


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