AMF in MYF

[Ian J]

Originally Posted by KLB

If you depart at 5:30 am, you'd get there about 6:30 am. Be done unloading and in the crashpad by 7:00 am. Your departure time is around 5:00 or 6:00 pm. In this example you have 10 to 11 hrs between the time that you went off duty and your showtime at the crashpad and it is considered to be your required rest.

Out of curiosity, what do you do all day while waiting for your evening departure?

[Propilot]

Plan world domination, keep my local hoes' happy, etc etc.


er, study for my checkride.

[KLB]

Originally Posted by ChinookDriver

Out of curiosity, what do you do all day while waiting for your evening departure?

It depends on where you're laying over. Most of us hit the sack as soon as we get to the layover....get up around lunch time to grab a bite to eat. We're usually only given a certain amount of miles on the crew car (if there is one) to travel with everyday. Alot of people hit the gym, go on runs, hikes, and etc... I try to use the layover time constructively.

[ComplexHiAv8r]

Originally Posted by ChinookDriver

Out of curiosity, what do you do all day while waiting for your evening departure?

Cruise Jetcareers??

[DCApilot2006]

Originally Posted by KLB

If you depart at 5:30 am, you'd get there about 6:30 am. Be done unloading and in the crashpad by 7:00 am. Your departure time is around 5:00 or 6:00 pm. In this example you have 10 to 11 hrs between the time that you went off duty and your showtime at the crashpad and it is considered to be your required rest.

Someone was talking about flying home around 11pm in a post on the first page then flying out early in the morning. How is that legal again?
Sounds like AMF runs you to the extremes on the crew rest issue. Agreed, you guys don't fly squat for hours in the day, but even sitting on your duff for 10 hrs is exhausting. Sounds like you have a crappy scheduling department to me.

I see the pay is just under 2K gross per month, do they pay ANY extra for extra time worked? By the time you take taxes out, that would hardly pay rent in california let alone car payments, student loans and you still have to eat?!

[tinman]

Originally Posted by Propilot

Plan world domination, keep my local hoes' happy, etc etc.


er, study for my checkride.

When is the checkride?

[tinman]

Crappy scheduling department? You bet we do. UPS

[jtrain609]

Originally Posted by DCApilot2006

Someone was talking about flying home around 11pm in a post on the first page then flying out early in the morning. How is that legal again?
Sounds like AMF runs you to the extremes on the crew rest issue. Agreed, you guys don't fly squat for hours in the day, but even sitting on your duff for 10 hrs is exhausting. Sounds like you have a crappy scheduling department to me.

I see the pay is just under 2K gross per month, do they pay ANY extra for extra time worked? By the time you take taxes out, that would hardly pay rent in california let alone car payments, student loans and you still have to eat?!

Did you miss me and KLB's posts? We both explained quite well how you can legally do this. The airlines do them too, they're just called CDO's.

[KLB]

Originally Posted by DCApilot2006

I see the pay is just under 2K gross per month, do they pay ANY extra for extra time worked? By the time you take taxes out, that would hardly pay rent in california let alone car payments, student loans and you still have to eat?!

That is pretty much entry level pay wherever you go. It is actually a little higher than most first year regional pay I believe. Welcome to first year aviation pay.

You do your 6 the 8 months in California and you get the heck out of there as soon as you can upgrade. Thats what I planning on doing anyway.

[Flysher]

How many hours a year do you Ameriflight guys put in? I did not know that you sat around so much!!

[JayAre]

Originally Posted by Flysher

How many hours a year do you Ameriflight guys put in? I did not know that you sat around so much!!

Don't go there



J/K

[KLB]

Originally Posted by Flysher

How many hours a year do you Ameriflight guys put in? I did not know that you sat around so much!!

It all depends on the run. I'm TDY'd in Seattle right now and I actually don't have the long sit. I'm flying 1hr legs with 30 minute to 2.5 hrs sits in between legs. After becoming so accustomed to flying out and sitting all day, this really sucks. I'm flying a little over 5hrs a day here. I usually only fly about a little under 3.5 hrs a day.

[EatSleepFly]

Originally Posted by Flysher

How many hours a year do you Ameriflight guys put in? I did not know that you sat around so much!!

I think I flew about 600 hours in 2006. And I don't exactly go out of my way to work my ass off (in other words, probably could've flown more if I'd wanted to).

It really depends on the individual and the run. There are some pretty high flight time runs that put you right up to the limits, and there are a lot of really short ones. Lately I've been doing reserve and not really flying much, but I'm actually making MORE money than I would on a regular run (because of specials and training), and spending a lot more time doing whatever I want.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Flysher

How many hours a year do you Ameriflight guys put in? I did not know that you sat around so much!!

I was at AMF for exactly one year and got around 500 hours. I easily couldve flown more but I got into a rut for a while where I didn't want to fly at all and only flew the lazyboy on reserve. So over that period of time I flew about 50 hours over a five month period. The flight time at AMF is there if you're hungry for hours.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by ChinookDriver

Out of curiosity, what do you do all day while waiting for your evening departure?

Go to Wal-Mart and hog the PS3 for hours in the video game dept, Watch TV, Wack it, Sleep, Watch the clock, Walk 4 miles to something that is slightly better than hagning out at the hotel and then walk back, Wack it again, Sleep some more. Some of the more northerly locations you can ski/snowboard, and in VGT you can get jumped by some local thugs on your way to get a Subway Sandwich. My favorite was the town nobody at AMF wanted to layover at, Vernon TX. Food, and a Super WallyWorld really close, crew car, ms pac man at the laundrymat, and a little golf course that was super cheap and you could rent clubs if you hadn't brought any, and the hotel room had a mini fridge. Good times!

[citabriapilot]

I'm looking at between 900-1000 hours this next year in west Texas. Like the others said, it just depends on your run.