Originally Posted by
reddog25
That blows my mind...easy to do. So a RSV pilot is going to get single pay for the trip and be gone maybe 10 days....must not be married, or is and needs to get over to the orient for a few days
Its hard on RSV to give up holidays and weekends off to come in for a GS/IA because it is straight pay. But I've known a few 777 pilots who've told me that they put in a standing GS and it was the only trip they got all month. So I could see how flying 1 4-day and getting paid 100 hours on the month.
Unless I'm missing something, that math should be about right. Sometimes the rules around GS's get a bit too tricky for me to figure out.
I need to study the reverse side of GS's as in maybe I shouldn't have accepted this one because it was worth a lot less than I thought.