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Fredturbo 06-20-2019 06:06 AM
Originally Posted by MOGuy (Post 2839970)
Also...plan to work if you were to come here. This isn’t your typical corporate flight department job. You’ll fly ~6-700 hrs a year here. Not a whole lot of sitting and enjoying your resort and rum runners. It happens occasionally if you break or every once in a while you might get a day off on rotation but for the most part you’ll be flying. Just a disclaimer, not trying to scare you off but I work harder longer days than I did at the regional I left.
Jesus Christ! No thanks.

Packrat 06-20-2019 02:04 PM
Originally Posted by Fredturbo (Post 2840028)
Jesus Christ! No thanks.
It kind of burst my bubble as well.

Simboss 06-20-2019 02:36 PM
We do work hard. We do NOT sit around fbo’s all day waiting for something to happen. We fly 1-4 legs per day, usually 2-3. We stay in Hilton or Marriott hotels everywhere. We have a lot of resources just a phone call away. Most importantly, we have a management team that cares about us.

Busdriver91 06-20-2019 04:01 PM
Originally Posted by Fredturbo (Post 2840028)
Jesus Christ! No thanks.
You expect to get paid doing nothing?

hawkerpilot05 06-20-2019 04:37 PM
Do they have schedule rest or do they call you after 10 hours and expect you to take the trip if briefed the night before for a later show?

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reredwood 06-21-2019 12:25 AM
Originally Posted by LJ JE (Post 2839952)
Days 1 and 8 are considered work days. Roughly, I have experienced just commuting about 50% of the time. However, you can go through long stretches where you're also working on all those days.

You are usually replacing another pilot (who is going home) on a given aircraft on your day 1. If there are trip(s) on that tail for that day, one or both of you guys will be also "working" on your first or last day. XOJET is quite good at aircraft and crew utilization.
So most of the time you are doing at least 1 leg after commuting in on Day 1 and at least 1 leg before commuting out on Day 8. sound about right? Have you ever heard of them asking a pilot to commute on one of their 6 days off? Ever had a problem with the company not getting you a commuting ticket home?

reredwood 06-21-2019 12:45 AM
Originally Posted by MOGuy (Post 2839970)
Also...plan to work if you were to come here. This isn’t your typical corporate flight department job. You’ll fly ~6-700 hrs a year here. Not a whole lot of sitting and enjoying your resort and rum runners. It happens occasionally if you break or every once in a while you might get a day off on rotation but for the most part you’ll be flying. Just a disclaimer, not trying to scare you off but I work harder longer days than I did at the regional I left.
Thanks for the heads up. Truthfully, I’m liking the home basing and company paid commuting. Company I’m at now (not home based), pays for commuting however you have to commute on days off ( kind of like the 121 pilots that have to commute to their domicile).
The work doesn’t bother so much, however don’t mess with the days off (if you know what I mean).

MOGuy 06-21-2019 03:22 AM
Originally Posted by hawkerpilot05 (Post 2840498)
Do they have schedule rest or do they call you after 10 hours and expect you to take the trip if briefed the night before for a later show?

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No we don’t do rolling rest. It’s scheduled. They can contact you once via email to extend rest for a later departure. If they break your rest period they have to afford you a full 10 hrs again.

MOGuy 06-21-2019 03:26 AM
Originally Posted by reredwood (Post 2840620)
So most of the time you are doing at least 1 leg after commuting in on Day 1 and at least 1 leg before commuting out on Day 8. sound about right? Have you ever heard of them asking a pilot to commute on one of their 6 days off? Ever had a problem with the company not getting you a commuting ticket home?
Never on your days off. Only way would be going home maybe if it were out of their control due to weather or some kind of disaster that fudged up the airlines otherwise they never ask you to commute on days off.

MOGuy 06-21-2019 03:29 AM
Originally Posted by reredwood (Post 2840623)
Thanks for the heads up. Truthfully, I’m liking the home basing and company paid commuting. Company I’m at now (not home based), pays for commuting however you have to commute on days off ( kind of like the 121 pilots that have to commute to their domicile).
The work doesn’t bother so much, however don’t mess with the days off (if you know what I mean).
That’s sucks. Nope we only commute on our day 1/8 of the rotation. Like I mentioned not trying g to scare people off but expect to work. We have a huge support network that books hotels, airlines, files flight plans, backs us up on wx and mx. We have a great group of pilots but you need to know what you’re getting into beforehand so you don’t think your getting to go on a paid vacation twice a month.


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