The only two airline times I've spent significant time studying at home has been:
New hire at DAL, wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor on day 2 of indoc. Less than a week after her brother was killed in a farm tractor rollover. Fleet Captain sent me home vs rolling right from indoc to training and told me to call him when I was ready, but please show up ready to rock. If you need more time to study, it's cool keep us updated. Had been at Delta 3 days and the Fleet Captain sent me home, with pay, for as long as we needed. I figured I was being paid to study.

Return from Mil leave.. Sat NQAT (no qual awaiting training) for 6 months. Swapped aircraft for CA upgrade, was getting full pay to sit on ass on my couch. I managed to break collarbone, have it fixed, heal, and still hadn't had to call out sick. I studied the 320 stuff when I was stuck on the couch with my shoulder mummified.

But any studying for CQ or in my case going back to the 757? I just read that in cruise.

 

while it seems most on here at APC magically seem to study enroute, 99% of guys I fly with do not. Then we end up flying to San Juan and then give me the oh sh*t look when they have no idea what class 2 procedures are.

 

Air India operates between NY and Delhi with 2 pilots?

 

No, I maybe I shoud have been more clear. The flight I was operating was between FRA and EWR in my story. At that time AI had what we called a scissors hub at FRA with three flights coming up from India and four from North America meeting at 6AM. When I was at AI their rules were after 10 hours scheduled a relief pilot would be added. Then at 14 hours they went two crews. Guess what...I never saw a fllight scheduled between 10 & 14 hours. In the winter we would often see flights take over 10 hours but always scheduled for 9:59 between FRA & ORD. The 22 YO FOs would always ask if they could take a nap which I would OK and then ask after they woke up if I wanted to nap. My reply to that question was not on your life.

 

Ah. Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Love hearing stories fromthose who have flown for non-US carriers.