Originally Posted by
poor pilot
Great post and right on time for me I have been considering NJ for some time now and the whole scheduling thing kept me from submitting the application. I have been asking around and the NJ guys i talk with say they love it and I can not for the life of me see why. I hate 4 days so how the hell can i do a 7day trip or a 5 day trip for that matter. Thanks.
The reason we "love" it is not the 7 days on. The reason you hate 4 days is I bet you have 3 days off after it. We have 7 days off after we get home and sometimes our day 7 flying back home gets us there before noon so in effect we have 8 days off. Get that every other week and it's nice. Very nice. The only reason I am on the 18 day is like most pilots, I am greedy and they offered too much money to not take it. Once I am out of debt I will go back to the 7n7. I wish you well in finding your career job as there is a lot of different schedules at different places.
I feel for those whose relationships are strained by the profession and am glad the pilot who posted it found a job he is home almost all the time. It's sad that some girlfriends and wives tell us they can accept us being gone for our chosen profession and then try to make us choose between them and work. NJ I doubt is any rougher on a relationship than many other aviation jobs. Our time off is just grouped together in large chunks instead of being broken up into small bits.
Good luck to everyone!