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02-26-2022 | 07:55 AM
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Also watch the carb intake and try to keep it down. Can’t really bring food, but when I get some where and I have time. I try to make it to a grocery store and pick up a salad kit and a rotisserie chicken to hold me over for a day or so.
02-26-2022 | 08:06 AM
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All these are tough questions because the answer may change any day now, right now we are making bank (easy 130-150 credit per month without working any extra, the overtime monsters are hitting 200-250) because of our Covid pay, but no-one knows how long this feast will continue. Assume 4 months from DOH before you actually start making that money. If you think COVID is still a thing 4 months from now, you might see it. I'm not making any predictions on that.
So right now, there are year 1 FOs hitting 30k a month with overtime, and there are lines that guarantee 20k at year 1 FO rates. YMMV.
Typical roster? Hope you like ICN.
All these are tough questions because the answer may change any day now, right now we are making bank (easy 130-150 credit per month without working any extra, the overtime monsters are hitting 200-250) because of our Covid pay, but no-one knows how long this feast will continue. Assume 4 months from DOH before you actually start making that money. If you think COVID is still a thing 4 months from now, you might see it. I'm not making any predictions on that.
So right now, there are year 1 FOs hitting 30k a month with overtime, and there are lines that guarantee 20k at year 1 FO rates. YMMV.
Typical roster? Hope you like ICN.
I am a 11+ year 747 Capt. I have gotten 130+ credit twice: Once as FO on the only month I outbased, and once as Capt.
In Nov I flew a few legs. Dec 2 legs. Jan a few legs, and Feb 2 legs. I did make about $13K takehome pay on the few legs I flew in Jan. My situation is unusual for current Atlas pilots, but it can easily happen to you.
I do know of FOs flying overtime, and making 20K+ recently. I normally fly a bit of overtime here and there. I don't outbase, because there are ALWAYS certain days off per month I try and get.
02-26-2022 | 08:08 AM
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02-26-2022 | 08:12 AM
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Hello folks, Search engine is not working very well for me. Tried to research about food bu tb wh em clicking on the post would show me a different one...weird. How someone that cares about diet and healthy food is going to deal with the Atlas lifestyle?! Carrying food is not an option..is it? What catering food is available? is it possible to maintain a certain (healthy) diet during the trips?
I know of a Halal pilot that quit. I like Halal a lot.
The catering ranges from OK to great...HIGHLY variable.
I have had FedEx and UPS catering. Some of it I like better than Atlas. Some of the typical Atlas catering I like better than the FedEx/UPS stuff.
02-26-2022 | 08:20 AM
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In the 747 (and I'm sure 777) there are 4 pilots. In the 747, normal cargo setup, there are two bunks in the back, separated with cloth doors. There will also be one open "biz" class seat, and you will get extra pay for the long flight...both the last two are from the new contract.
02-26-2022 | 08:22 AM
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Most of the catering is WAY better that what I got in the military, and i had prison food for a couple of days...Atlas is light years better than the (mil) prison food I had.
02-26-2022 | 08:23 AM
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The more of a restricted diet you have, the more food you will want to take with you. Some pilots take a LOT of food (a pilot with celiac, for example), and some take complex coffee makers. A LOT bring their own coffee: catering is usually Maxwell House?...not very well liked. Sometimes we get Starbucks.I know of a Halal pilot that quit. I like Halal a lot.The catering ranges from OK to great...HIGHLY variable.I have had FedEx and UPS catering. Some of it I like better than Atlas. Some of the typical Atlas catering I like better than the FedEx/UPS stuff.
02-26-2022 | 08:24 AM
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I usually lose weight while I'm on trips, mostly because I fast a lot, but there are many temptations you have to avoid. They pile on a lot crap and junk food out of some of the stations and you get real bored flying over the ocean with out much to do. I've done a lot of international commercial deadheads and with those it's very easy to feel like you are going on vacation and something and start pounding down the free drinks and food in the lounges and flights.
02-26-2022 | 08:27 AM
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For potential new hires. Just read of several candidates recommended by my fellow pilots, who failed the phone screen interview. Makes no sense to me, as I'm sure they were highly qualified.
If you don't make it through the hiring process, try again if you want, and do not take it personally. There are many, many times when there is no logical reason that highly qualified candidates
are not hired...and sometimes they are told they are not hired, but then they are, and/or they try again and are suddenly highly qualified and hired no problem.
To everyone out there, and especially those suffering as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, God Bless, and Namaste...
If you don't make it through the hiring process, try again if you want, and do not take it personally. There are many, many times when there is no logical reason that highly qualified candidates
are not hired...and sometimes they are told they are not hired, but then they are, and/or they try again and are suddenly highly qualified and hired no problem.
To everyone out there, and especially those suffering as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, God Bless, and Namaste...
02-26-2022 | 11:39 AM
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I usually lose weight while I'm on trips, mostly because I fast a lot, but there are many temptations you have to avoid. They pile on a lot crap and junk food out of some of the stations and you get real bored flying over the ocean with out much to do. I've done a lot of international commercial deadheads and with those it's very easy to feel like you are going on vacation and something and start pounding down the free drinks and food in the lounges and flights.
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