Originally Posted by
Airhoss
And the best part,
After getting your 1.5 hours of quality sleep between 01:00 and 02:30 at the walrus colony during the sort. You got to get up and fly 3 more legs only to finally flop in a crappy cut rate hotel with no way to block the sun light or the noise from the 6 lane highway and an A/C unit that would loudly clank on and off in between ineffective periods of blowing hot air.
The good news was, at 19:00 you got to do it all over again for 5 nights in a row!
Man I miss flying DC-8’s all night, every night, well, not really, at all, not even a little bit!!
I guess it depends who you are flying freight for. As a domestic knuckle dragger at Purple my schedule looks nothing like what you describe. When I was an FO I did very little night flying if any. In fact, as a guy who use to be at a “legacy”, I would never return to the 3-4 leg days of pax hauling with 3 hour sits at the terminal. Plus, I couldn't afford the pay cut.
I guess to each their own. Just like pax airlines all cargo isn’t created equal. I bet if flying cargo kept a bunch of pilots on property at UAL the line would be out the door.