You work 4-5 days(12 or more hours each and away from base) and have two or three off, non consecutively. So one week you might be off on a Tues and Wed, next trip on a Sun and Monday. Once you have a line qol becomes better because you know your schedule.

Reserve qol is non existent. I suppose you can make it work if your base is an hour flight away but not more than that. Plan on moving to your base.