Originally Posted by
jtf560
I wasn't saying the airplane itself sucks- just the way it is used by NetJets because it is so capable of accomplishing almost any mission the company has. I fully agree that the individual pilots HAVE to be willing to fatigue whenever they must. We must all recondition our minds to feel no remorse when calling in fatigued and then actually go ahead and call in guilt free whenever safety demands it. That is definitely not the case now with the majority.
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Understood, the way NetJets uses the airplane isn’t the blood bath some make it out to be. You will fly 400+ hours a year in the 350 at NetJets. Your total duty time however will be equal to people in fleets that fly less than that. So the real question is do you like STBY/Hot Spare duty or do you want to fly? In my time in the fleet we fly 5-7 hours before we get to 10 hours of duty and go to the hotel.
The other good thing about the 350 is Cessna didn’t design the seat. A 6 hour leg in the 350 doesn’t hurt like a 4 hour leg in the 680.