Originally Posted by
tiger7612
During your 3/1 or 4/1 schedule are you on the road the whole time or do charter flights usually originate at your base? For a DFW Charter Pilot on the Metro how often would you be at home? Just the one week?
If you get sent out on a trip say on a Monday or Tuesday, there’s a good chance they are going to leave you sitting wherever you go trying to sell you and the plane on another trip. I’ve done a trip on a Monday then sat there at the destination all week away from home without a trip, when they could have give me my legal rest, then have me repo to base where I would have been more likely to get a trip and I would have got to see home vs just sitting all week for nothing 1200 nm from home.
But it’s not always like that. Sometimes you will get an out and back trip where you do it then come home and have a couple days at home during the week.
Trips sometimes originate in base sometimes they don’t. During your weeks on you will get to come home for the weekend.