Pilots Schedule

[Snuggle]

In Aug I fly 4 day trips, tues morning to friday afternoon every week. 14 days off for the month.

[kellwolf]

Originally Posted by higney85

Yea yea.. the money would be nice...

As far as ATL here in lies the issue. 1. The CA's are coming from the NWA system according to a "Very good" source. Basically there are more than enough folks (that are already -200 CA's) with a standing bid for ATL CA. They will get the 14 spots, with no backfill in the NWA system because currently our staffing is "fat" aka "correct for once". 2. I won't go over there as an FO. Sure a couple more bucks an hour but the QOL and less flying are enough to deter the wife and I. I still plan on the MEM CA spot and eventually work over to ATL CA (hopefully around the spring).

Yeah, I wouldn't go as an FO either. My sim partner did the -200 FO to -900 CA thing, and he said it was a bitch. Upgrade's tough enough, then you've got to handle a relatively new airplane AND seeing ATL for the first time as a CA. So, if we're "fat" and not gonna back fill, I guess that means they probably won't fill the secondaries left in MEM for the guys that go from here to ATL. Good news for me, but bad news for you, I guess.

[Doug Taylor]

ORD's WAAAAY scarier than ATL! At least in my opinion. Trippy.

[zmiller4]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

ORD's WAAAAY scarier than ATL! At least in my opinion. Trippy.

until you get used to it.

I passed up a CRJ upgrade last year because I didn't want to deal with Chicago for the first time, during winter as new captain with no real winter flying experience. I figured I'd be able to upgrade in January or Feb. of this year....oops!

[Polar742]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

ORD's WAAAAY scarier than ATL! At least in my opinion. Trippy.

Intersecting runways that you can't see what's coming at you. Why would that be scary in the least? <---is that really needed?

[777forever]

ATL is EAAASSSYYY. Had it down after a couple observation flights. You don't ever need to write down taxi instructions.

[KLB]

My schedule is a little different. Sometime I fly on-demand charter and sometimes I may fly a scheduled run.

Last weeks schedule went

Monday through Wednesday: 1100 to 2000 reserve in DFW waiting on a charter.
Thursday: 1100 to 2000 waiting on a charter with a reposition flight to CVG from 2100 to 0200 Friday morning.
Friday: 1300 show reserve waiting on a charter with a 1545 flight that went CVG ALB YIP CYHM. I was done at 2030
Saturday: 0800 show and 0930 departure from CYHM to KBED.
Today: I'm on my way up to CYOW in another two hours or so.

Next week I'll be flying from CYOW-KBED-CYOW. I show @ 0500 and will be done by 1100. Those will be really easy days. I'll have Wednesday off and spend Saturday in BED.

My schedule is three weeks on and one week off.
Thats a life of a freight dawg doing charters.

[TwinsFanPilot]

I get 11 days off on reserve a month. 2nd from the bottom in base and i work every holiday, weekend, and then comute on my days off to go to work.

[DE727UPS]

I bid reserve by choice. It's a 15 on/13 off schedule. I average 3 to 4 days of actual work during the 15 on. If I bid a regular line, I'd have 3 more days a month off, but I'd be working all 12 days. Guess I'm lazy...