Originally Posted by
RedTail98
I'm also a Feb interview guy looking forward to starting training soon. I thought I'd add this question to an already helpful thread for us new folks.
What is a safe distance (drive time) to live from base to ease the reserve burden? I'll be moving my family to central Florida prior to training, and commuting until I can get MCO. My somewhat ineffective forum searches for reserve rules lead me to believe 2 hours is the timeframe so I have the wife on a 1 hour radius house hunt.
You're correct...2 hours from call to report. It's about 20 minutes from the employee parking lot to the gate.
I think a 1 hr radius is good for central FL, that's what I ended up with. I started at a 90 minute radius but with Orlando traffic I decided it was safer to do 60 minutes. Most of the guys I fly with who live in central FL seem to live right around an hour from the airport. Personally, I eliminated anything that required commuting on I-4. Most of our MCO trips leave super early in the morning so statistically you'll likely miss most of the traffic on the way in, but better to be safe. Let me know if you need a realtor. The guy I used was fantastic, and he's used to the airline pilot quirks now :-)