Originally Posted by
Rogue Pilot
What about your competition on the Island that offers a schedule( Excelair, Summit). There are plenty of 135 and corporate departments that offer definitive schedules. To say that if your not willing to get up and run to the airport anytime the boss calls, you should stay out of corporate aviation is just wrong. Are the Fractionals considered corporate aviation? They offer very good schedules with competative benefits.
I was referring to the previous post where the schedule was referred to as "crap".
We staff each airplane with three pilots. One pilot will be off while the other two are either covering or flying the airplane. If the airplane is sitting and two pilots are covering it then they will be called if a trip "pops up". This does not happen often. The majority of the time you will know what you are doing a day or two in advance.
The pilots at the fractionals do have a good day off schedule but I guarantee you that when they go to work they do not have a difinitive schedule as to where they will be on a daily basis.
Our average pilot flys 12 to 15 days a month.