Originally Posted by
C130driver
Hello all,
For those of you who are still in the guard/reserves and at an airline, I have a question about schedules.
Assuming you are willing to work a bit more: is it possible to front load your monthly schedule at an airline, and then use your remaining ~15ish days off to work at your unit without taking mil leave? For instance, fly all your airline trips in the first half of the month and then work at your unit the second half? Appreciate any insight!
It would depend on the airline. The problem is flight duty and block time limits. If the airline needs you to actually fly 85 hours/month, then 117 limits would prevent you from cramming all of that into 2 weeks. If you're on reserve for that kind of flying, same deal...you're no use to them if you're on call but illegal due to lack of days off. This would probably be typical of regional/domestic NB flying.
If the nature of the job involves more soft time, ie duty/trip rigs than actual flying it might be possible to front load it all. This might be possible with widebody/international.
As others have said, just take the time off from the airline, don't kill yourself. You adjust the balance between airline and reserves over time as suits you.