Originally Posted by
St Exupery
Now that someone mentioned sim instructing it made me think of at least 1 pilot that is a TK instructor that lives in Europe. I believe he typically has a 2 leg commute. He is able to bid his entire work schedule into a 2 week block and then he’s home for the other 2 weeks. It actually turns out to be less than 14 days because of flying days. But that is a possibility for a 2 leg commute. The other option is GUM pilots. They can do the same thing and compress reserve days into one block to limit commutes. The compressed reserve line is something that was supposed to be tested with other bases with our new PWA but I haven’t seen the company do it yet. And I believe implementation is at company discretion. So that may never happen…
Compressed RSV has been available in WBs for quite a while (a year at least). The plan was always to test it in those categories then expand it to NB if it worked out. I don’t think they ever defined how long the test would be or what the criteria were for success, so from that standpoint it’s true that we are at the mercy of the company.
As for the OP: You can make anything work for a few months. If your plan is to two leg commute for life… I’d come up with a new plan.