Originally Posted by
tozairport
All I can say is wow. I hope there aren't too many more like you or we are definitely screwed. I remember when our contract maxed out our monthly time at 82 hours. Those were the days. Why in the world would you want to work more than that? Over 100 hours a month? Internationally? That's just a one way ticket to an early grave.
I don't want to fly 100 hours any more than most pilots but I've always had a problem with limits. Why 82? Why not 85? Why not 66 or 50? The point is we have pilots on both sides of the table that simply love to CONTROL pilots. Mgmt does it through company rules and regs and the union does it through a contract. I think limits are a necessary evil but I get a kick out of pilots telling other pilots they should be able to live on XXXXX dollars because they do.