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Originally Posted by
MooseAg03
Someone already updated the profile with the pay scale. How is the schedule? Is it still 12 days straight?
All PIC's are or will be on 10/5 by 4/2016 and SIC's with more then 12 months on property will go to 10/5. The schedule sounds bad but it could be worse. It all depends some rotations you will work all 10 and the next maybe only 6 days. I can guarantee I am home more then the Wheels Up crews that are on 8/6. Last rotation I worked 5 days and was off for 11. Is that the norm, absolutely not, but sometimes you luck out.
THIS is why so many there are unhappy...... A
12 on 3 day off schedule and Astro, scheduling software written by folks who took little account of human factors that now often keeps pilots AWAY from home base for the entire tour versus before Astro. I have heard the term "slave ship" mentioned in the pilot lounge of FBO's, but I usually comment that that term is pretty culturally insensitive... However, the term "Sweat Shop" definitely applies to any place with a 12/3 schedule that loves to hit the OPTOMIZE (or something - OMIZE) button on Astro.
Pay and benefits get few complaints that I hear of. But it is mainly the schedule that is driving and keeping pilots away. They are advertising on APC now along with the regionals.... Nice crews, good equipment, fair pay, with the worst schedule in the fractional industry. Funny that pilot exodus forced a little change to 10/5, unlike Wheels Up that went quickly to 7/6 after their exodus and they swore that this would never happen. EAS will come around one of these days....