Do revisions (I have a rule that I do not do revisions unless at work), read the paper, magazines or book, talk or sleep if I'm tired enough.

You must fly the ERJ135 "ER" if you're flying NYC-LAX.

Answer the F/A calls. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff they ask.

757 only has three Pax temp compartment reostats in the cockpit. Fwd Mid and Aft.

"Can you warm it up in the back of 1st class, and cool it down in the middle of Coach"

"Can you turn up the air?"


And the Pax! I'm flying to Paris (on break in 1st class in crew rest seat) and wake up. There's a pax sitting next to me. I wake her, and say very nicely "I'm sorry you can't sit there." She says Oh, I was waiting to use the lav and fell asleep" Ok. I close my eyes and after a little while wake up. She's still there. I tap her arm, she won't wake up.
I leave her alone. My breaks over in 20 minutes. I step over her to get out of my front row seat. I ask the F/A's in the Galley. Is that a 1st class pax?
Hmmm, they don't know and don't seem to care. I retell the situation to the Skipper in the Cockpit. Since he's going back next.
He never gave me the details, and i kept asking him. The F/A's said he escorted her back to row 35. That is a long walk of shame on a 767.

When flying to the left coast, I send one of the other pilots to one of the bunk rooms, so he will be refreshed to drive the rental car to Lake Tahoe, and do an Operational Risk Management assessment to determine how many High Charts I can put up in the windows to keep the blasted sun out of my eyes--without compromising safety. The engineer usually has some maintenance issues to entertain our brains, and if we see or hear a C-17 up there, we wager on how close the air refueling tanker is.

yeah, some long haul erj flying. Sometimes it feels like it though. LGA to XNA or RDU to AUS comes to mind.

Typical 4 day-

Day 1: Catch up on revisions
Day 2: Make paper mache out of old revisions
Day 3: Catch up on sleep from the crazy outing on the last overnight
Day 4: Playing chicken with the "Hi Steve" master warning, haulin' ass to make my commute home.

Well, if you fly across one of the ponds you have just enough work and talking on the HF to keep you awake

I just did NYC to LAX. Did my jepps, read USA Today, ate, & read book. It's only 5 hours, so it's not too bad. The 8 hour legs get a little boring. Over 8 hours is nice because you get to go back to first class and sleep, eat, watch movies, etc.

Good ol' Betty. God I hate her...

That's just because the -135's love refueling us so much.....