Originally Posted by
GeeWizDriver
Don't forget, it's a 7 and 7 schedule but you're home 8 nights and then gone 6. I average departing Day 1 around 9 AM and arriving home Day 7 around noon-3 PM. Better schedule than 98% of corporate flight departments and my airline pilot wife would have killed for this schedule.
The 7/7 is definitely not as bad as it might appear on the surface. I had a tour a few weeks back where I didn't show til 3 pm on day 1 (Sunday) and I walked in my front door on day 7 (Saturday) at 9:45 am. Don't get me wrong, that is definitely not the norm but you're not really on the road half your life as it would appear. With 2 weeks vacation and 1 week of "sick" time, you actually would spend only 138 (23 tours x 6) nights in a hotel in a year.