Originally Posted by
LivingInMEM
Even if you are based in the county, not many of you spend much of your time working in the county - if you consider that you are paid based on block or duty rig and only an hour or so of each trip is in the county. Seems like you should be able to justify putting 5% or so of your time is spent working in the county (making 95% of your wages exempt).
In general this is true. The time from report to sdf to wheels up and the time from wheels down at sdf until check out + training + reserves + LOL, etc... compared to total credit hours. Most pilots will be in the 5% to 10% range. There will be some that will be a lot more and some less.