Time from Home??
08-11-2006 | 04:58 AM
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From: UpsideBrown ONT
Depends,
If you live in your base plan on being home more than your wife can stand... If you commute, 12-13 days out of 28 is all the home time you'll get. I only flew 250 hours my first year on reserve. Home time is possible just not a guarantee.
Good luck
LL
If you live in your base plan on being home more than your wife can stand... If you commute, 12-13 days out of 28 is all the home time you'll get. I only flew 250 hours my first year on reserve. Home time is possible just not a guarantee.
Good luck
LL
08-11-2006 | 05:25 AM
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Originally Posted by sscottky72
How much time does a pilot lets say 1-5 yrs with UPS expect to be away from his family during a typical month?
I think Min days off now is 11 in a 28 day period.
If you live in Dom SDF/MIA/ONT/ANC? you would be home at least 12 days a month even if on reserve. Res is a hit and miss deal sometimes being home alot other times gone for 29 days like my last IRO. (two res blocks matching up to each other)
I would guess being gone half the time is the way to think of it, That way if its better GREAT!!
08-11-2006 | 03:02 PM
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From: FredEx Captain-Retired
You know, like Christmas, Thanksgiving -and the birthdays, anniversaries, school plays, soccer and other ball games, Proms, graduations . .yadda, yadda. . it is hard work to 'schedule' your life as an airline pilot. The only way it gets easier is to get senior. Then they publish a bid for the seat you have been planning on going to next. . . reminds me of a great song by Joni Mitchell. .. The Circle Game.
08-11-2006 | 06:25 PM
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[QUOTE=Airbum;52445]I think Min days off now is 11 in a 28 day period.
If you live in Dom SDF/MIA/ONT/ANC? you would be home at least 12 days a month even if on reserve. Res is a hit and miss deal sometimes being home alot other times gone for 29 days like my last IRO. (two res blocks matching up to each other)
So you get assigned a Dom on what intervals...monthly, yearly. So just because you live close to a Dom doesn't mean you will be assigned to that Dom it all has to do with senority correct?
If you live in Dom SDF/MIA/ONT/ANC? you would be home at least 12 days a month even if on reserve. Res is a hit and miss deal sometimes being home alot other times gone for 29 days like my last IRO. (two res blocks matching up to each other)
So you get assigned a Dom on what intervals...monthly, yearly. So just because you live close to a Dom doesn't mean you will be assigned to that Dom it all has to do with senority correct?
08-11-2006 | 09:21 PM
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From: FredEx Captain-Retired
[quote=sscottky72;52617]
EVERYTHING in airline life is 'seniority'.
When you are 1st hired . .you go where they tell you to. If you are a freight dog, the locations are a lot more limited than with the PAX carriers.
Your Domicile is your domicile, It is semi-permanent, like it or not, until you have the seniority to go someplace else.. .but they have to have a Vacancy Bid for that someplace else and you have to be able to 'hold it'.
Where you live has no bearing on anything, except how much of your life you will spend commuting, if you chose not to live in the Domicile, because all your trips begin and end in that city.
I think Min days off now is 11 in a 28 day period.
If you live in Dom SDF/MIA/ONT/ANC? you would be home at least 12 days a month even if on reserve. Res is a hit and miss deal sometimes being home alot other times gone for 29 days like my last IRO. (two res blocks matching up to each other)
So you get assigned a Dom on what intervals...monthly, yearly. So just because you live close to a Dom doesn't mean you will be assigned to that Dom it all has to do with senority correct?
If you live in Dom SDF/MIA/ONT/ANC? you would be home at least 12 days a month even if on reserve. Res is a hit and miss deal sometimes being home alot other times gone for 29 days like my last IRO. (two res blocks matching up to each other)
So you get assigned a Dom on what intervals...monthly, yearly. So just because you live close to a Dom doesn't mean you will be assigned to that Dom it all has to do with senority correct?
When you are 1st hired . .you go where they tell you to. If you are a freight dog, the locations are a lot more limited than with the PAX carriers.
Your Domicile is your domicile, It is semi-permanent, like it or not, until you have the seniority to go someplace else.. .but they have to have a Vacancy Bid for that someplace else and you have to be able to 'hold it'.
Where you live has no bearing on anything, except how much of your life you will spend commuting, if you chose not to live in the Domicile, because all your trips begin and end in that city.
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