Originally Posted by Braniff DC8 (Post 3233438)

MOGuy, if I may. Nothing against FedEx and it’s fine folk. Great company and great group of pilot’s.

Night cargo flying will wear on you after years! It WILL take years off your life. The life expectancy of cargo pilots is like 10 years earlier than pax pilots. You won’t escape it. Sitting reserve in the middle of the night versus the day is huge.
Long haul flying starts to wear on you HARD after about 50. HARD!
Commuting to cargo is a nightmare as they usually park on oppsite sides of the airports. This adds a lot to stress. Uber late at night, good luck!
Pass travel is SOOOOO much better at a pax carrier as is jumpseating. Buddy passes etc.
You’ll tire of vending machine food!
More bases as well at UAL and this means better jumpseat and pass travel.
Volatile you say at pax carriers??? Fred will possibly replace his pilots with drones as soon as he can. Our lifetime, prob not but Fred and his pilots have had a hard relationship as well.
Having done both, I would stear you to UAL. It’d be just better overall and longterm, at least for your health.

Best of luck. Either way You’ve won a golden ticket and a lifetime supply of chocolate, it’s just how long that lifetime will be.
Say HI to Willy.

Originally Posted by Braniff DC8 (Post 3233438)

MOGuy, if I may. Nothing against FedEx and it’s fine folk. Great company and great group of pilot’s.

Night cargo flying will wear on you after years! It WILL take years off your life. The life expectancy of cargo pilots is like 10 years earlier than pax pilots. You won’t escape it. Sitting reserve in the middle of the night versus the day is huge.
Long haul flying starts to wear on you HARD after about 50. HARD!
Commuting to cargo is a nightmare as they usually park on oppsite sides of the airports. This adds a lot to stress. Uber late at night, good luck!
Pass travel is SOOOOO much better at a pax carrier as is jumpseating. Buddy passes etc.
You’ll tire of vending machine food!
More bases as well at UAL and this means better jumpseat and pass travel.
Volatile you say at pax carriers??? Fred will possibly replace his pilots with drones as soon as he can. Our lifetime, prob not but Fred and his pilots have had a hard relationship as well.
Having done both, I would stear you to UAL. It’d be just better overall and longterm, at least for your health.

Best of luck. Either way You’ve won a golden ticket and a lifetime supply of chocolate, it’s just how long that lifetime will be.
Say HI to Willy.

Originally Posted by Braniff DC8 (Post 3233438)

MOGuy, if I may. Nothing against FedEx and it’s fine folk. Great company and great group of pilot’s.

Night cargo flying will wear on you after years! It WILL take years off your life. The life expectancy of cargo pilots is like 10 years earlier than pax pilots. You won’t escape it. Sitting reserve in the middle of the night versus the day is huge.
Long haul flying starts to wear on you HARD after about 50. HARD!
Commuting to cargo is a nightmare as they usually park on oppsite sides of the airports. This adds a lot to stress. Uber late at night, good luck!
Pass travel is SOOOOO much better at a pax carrier as is jumpseating. Buddy passes etc.
You’ll tire of vending machine food!
More bases as well at UAL and this means better jumpseat and pass travel.
Volatile you say at pax carriers??? Fred will possibly replace his pilots with drones as soon as he can. Our lifetime, prob not but Fred and his pilots have had a hard relationship as well.
Having done both, I would stear you to UAL. It’d be just better overall and longterm, at least for your health.

Best of luck. Either way You’ve won a golden ticket and a lifetime supply of chocolate, it’s just how long that lifetime will be.
Say HI to Willy.

Originally Posted by UnusualAttitude (Post 3234298)

I think the science is in the middle and there’s no way to account for genetic predisposition to various maladies.

I was turned on to an app that tracks and logs my sleep through my watch. It turns out that I’m averaging around 9-10 hours of sleep per night on the road. I fly international and I’ll admit that I make sleep a priority. I also make sure to get out and log at least 3-5 miles a day of walking/jogging/running etc. unless I’m in room confinement.

I didn’t use this tech when I was flying domestic hub turns but I’m guessing my sleep per day was probably somewhere around 5 hours at the beginning of the week and 6-7 by the end of the week. There are as many techniques to sleep as there are pilots flying.

No way I would make a career out of flying anywhere without considering the toll that travel in general takes on the body. Then again, I can’t imagine the toll that working in an office takes on the mind.

Originally Posted by cargoforlife (Post 3234715)

What app do you use?

Originally Posted by UnusualAttitude (Post 3234738)

AutoSleep...

Originally Posted by Air Guitar (Post 3234991)

is that better than what is built into the fitbit?

Originally Posted by Air Guitar (Post 3234991)

is that better than what is built into the fitbit?

Originally Posted by Fr8Master (Post 3234384)

No point in responding to Braniff. Based on his post, which is full of both factual and grammatical errors, he is either a troll trying to get everyone worked up or an idiot undeserving of anyone’s response. If a prospective FedEx pilot can be swayed by this idiotic post, I don’t want to fly with them...there are thousands more that will gladly take that spot.