How far away can one live from the bases listed? I'm in central Oregon and the PDX base is a 3 hour drive and RDM would be the closest airport with main line and regional service for me.

 

As far as I'm aware, there's no limit on how far you can live from your base, as long as you can be there for your airline on day 1 of your rotation. From what I understand, our bases are based on pax throughput, so if you only have a handful of airline flights per day, I wouldn't plan on it becoming a base. I know plenty of people here that drive 2-3 hours to their base. That said, your duty time on day 1 starts an hour before your airline, so you'll need to take that into consideration. If you start your drive 4 hours before your airline to arrive at the airport, park, take a shuttle to the terminal, get through KCM, etc, that could potentially be 19 hours from the time you wake up to the time you duty off, if you get used for a full 14 hours on day 1. Nothing major, and I know plenty of guys that do it, but just something to consider. Also, sometimes on day 1 you'll be put on reserve at residence which just means you're on reserve sitting at home. Dispatch understands we have pilots that live varying distances from their bases, so I'd imagine it would be nothing more than a call to dispatch the night before saying that you need X hours notification before an airline, but worst case scenario they might get you a hotel in your base to go sit at if they think they might be using you and want you closer to the airport.

 

I can confirm as of today at 9am that class starts on the 21st of June.

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Thank you for the info, I can make that work on the 15/13 schedule. I wouldn't want to do a three hour drive back and forth every week on an 8/6 schedule. Hoping to get some face time with them at RTAG in October.

 

They are having an open house/social in a couple weeks, June 14th, at the Doubletree/DFW if you can make that.

 

Heard or read somewhere (cannot remember) that FlexJet was considering paying for ATP/CTP for FO candidates who met the mins but hadn't taken an ATP/CTP course yet. Any truth to that?

 

Please note there are currently no set schedule options left (8/6, 15/13, etc). With the move to our new pay scale in March all fleet scheduling is either via PBS or Red Label, neither of which guarantees you a set, predictable schedule. At least according to the information presented along with the pay scales. Also a 15/13 has never been offered here to my knowledge but maybe someone else can chime in with more knowledge.

 

In the flexjet pilot brochure on their website it shows 8/6 or 7/7 known six months in advance or flex schedule. I don't see 15/13 offered.