Originally Posted by 182DD

Looking to try to understand what my QOL is going to be like on reserve a little better… I have a class date in November.



I live an hour and 50min drive from base best case, some rare days can be 2:20-2:40. I guess I had understood the “3hr callout” to be 3hrs from the time they call to walking into the plane. Last few posts show that’s not quite it.



At my current job (135) we only have an hour reserve callout so I’ve been either going and sitting at my crashpad or driving halfway and sitting at a Starbucks for a few hours… was hoping to get away from that and also being able to drop the crashpad all together.



So apart from that, another post mentioned that reserve trips may end up being a single leg and deadhead back or just a turn. Does that hold true as well most of the time? The other thing I was trying to get away from at my current job was a “home every night” type of schedule since I don’t exactly live in base and it’s not worth driving home if I’m going to work (or be on reserve) the next day.



Obviously the money is better where I’m at now in the left seat, but I was hoping to temporarily trade that for a little better QOL.