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by branchan 4044 days ago
How does 100k flights a day equal 2.4 millions hours of operation if each flight was on average 1 hour?
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Yeah, confused. If we assume a two hour average flight, we get 365 * 2 * 100K = 73M hours/year so one failure per 1G hours is one failure in 1000 / 73 = ~14 years.