Originally Posted by
RemoveB4flght
For those who whine about back side of the clock flying, you cannot do long haul and avoid this. Yes it’s hard on the body, and an Airport hotel 45-60 minutes from central London or Paris gets just as old as one next to LGA. To avoid hitting another circadian rhythm the best layover times are less than 18 or over 30 hours, I’m guessing we won’t be doing the long ones. Etc etc.
Compared to Kathmandu, Bogota is quite manageable (I did BOG in a 777). QFE approaches with metric altitudes into Kazakhstan, or butterfly shaped double procedure turn VOR approaches which aren’t in the FMS into Peshawar.
No, because most of our routes are dispatched under FAA rules, not ICAO, that’s why.
As far as cooler, I mean, I guess...
Working out dispatch legalities for ETOPS, commercial cargo safety requirements, dealing with HF in remote areas, being 3 hours away from anything resembling a runway over the pole, and the intricacies of NAT OTS procedures isn't about being cooler, it’s that flying domestically in the US is really friggin easy and for me not worth a pay bump to do all that again.
We don’t fly to Kathmandu or Kazakhstan nor do we do QFE approaches at metric altitudes so thats really not going to help you in Bogota.
I think the V1 cut in a plane I used to fly years ago is probably one of the hardest there is, but doesn’t mean I’m going to come in with that attitude for a plane with an easier V1 cut.