Depends on what schedule you get. If you become a charter pilot, you can live at home for a week but you are away for two weeks straight. The more likely schedule is a scheduled run where you work from a base everyday. You get weekends off so if you want to go home, you have to be back before you takeoff monday night. If your base is where you live (ie live in Columbus and work CMH-SDF), then you get see the family everyday. Commutablity is not too much of an option during the week. Hope that helps. If you're not back by in time for your flight on monday...company won't be happy, this isn't a regional where you can say, ''oops sorry, can someone fill in?"