Originally Posted by
blastboy
I'm having trouble understanding this as well. I always assumed that it was block or better. So when you say historic block does that mean they take a 5 day trip, for example, and calculate the average for those 5 days?
day 1: 7hrs
day 2: 5hrs
day 3: 8hrs
day 4: 4hrs
day 5: 8hrs
grand total = 32 hrs
average = 6.4 hrs/day
I don't think my arithmatic is making sense to even me but I just want to get a general idea of how average block and historic block works. Gracias.
The historic block is not by day, it is per each flight leg. They take the historic "average" of the time to fly between city pairs and that's what you get paid (only if the flight completes).
The average is artificially low, because the company "adjusts" block times that have significant delays. This keeps the historic average low and also keeps the pilot's weekly, monthly, and annual flight times lower than actual.
If you work at mesa you MUST keep your own written record of block times to ensure that you don't exceed flight time limits.