Originally Posted by
Turbinebound
Is It possible to have a life in the ANG - flying your 8 sorties a month then - flying for an airline as a day job - and have a family life as well. It would seem that airline guys are already tired / overworked / and away from home enough to try and complete some ANG requirement a month, not to mention all the traveling to/from the ANG base and back home. On top of that to try and have any sort of family would seem out of the question. Is this type of career path for the dedicated bachelor only??
8 sorties per month? Not sure about that one. What type of airframe are you talking about> You'll only get 48 FTP's for tankers as a part timer. Not sure what the other airframes are given. Divide that by 12 months and that's 4 sorties per month, not to include ground training, which you can use up to 4 FTP's per quarter for. There are voluntary TDY's, alert and of course, your drill weekends. If you can do two double FTP sorties, drill weekend and maybe a Charlie alert, you're only looking at 4 days at the unit per month, unless your alert gets tasked to an Alpha. Get 15 days off a month with the airline and you're looking at working 19-20 days a month. If you're the type that needs more time off than that, it may be tough.