Welcome to Flightinfo.com

  • Register now and join the discussion
  • Friendliest aviation Ccmmunity on the web
  • Modern site for PC's, Phones, Tablets - no 3rd party apps required
  • Ask questions, help others, promote aviation
  • Share the passion for aviation
  • Invite everyone to Flightinfo.com and let's have fun

Fractional bases?

Welcome to Flightinfo.com

  • Register now and join the discussion
  • Modern secure site, no 3rd party apps required
  • Invite your friends
  • Share the passion of aviation
  • Friendliest aviation community on the web
Register   Log in
NetJets lets you live almost anywhere in the continental US. I don't know about the others.
 
jtf said:
NetJets lets you live almost anywhere in the continental US. I don't know about the others.
Click to expand...

Really? I'd be willing to bet you that more that 51% of the land mass in the continental U.S. in not available for NetJet employment. As a matter of fact, I bet more like 85-90% is off limits.
 
I can live anywhere in the world that I want as long as I am at my base at my show time. There are over 200 airports that I could use for my base in the continental US. NJA has pilots living all over the place, including internationally. If I want to live a couple hundred miles away from the closest base, that would be my choice and most definitely not the companies. Therefore, NJA pilots can live almost anywhere they want in the continental US and I don't know how you can say we can't.
 
So when I see a list of bases, that is different from the way airlines use them. THey are more or less gateway cities you are allowed to live in? There isnt a set number of pilots in each base?
 
brokeflyer said:
you lost that bet.
Click to expand...


No, I didn't.

Unless you allow the "you can live anywhere as long as you get to your gateway" argument. If that's a fair argument then a frac with ONE gateway could say you can live anywhere, just like NetJets and we both know that would be BS.


Take all your gateways in the us. Draw a 2 hour circle around them. I still think there is more land mass in the US outside the circles than in.
 
I have no idea how much land mass a 2 hour circle would cover and I'm not wasting any time trying to figure it out. Now we are arguing just for the sake of arguing. NetJets pilots can live wherever they want and the vast majority of the US is within a reasonable drive to one of the bases. There are plenty of pilots who make it happen from the middle of nowhere. I have no idea what the rules are for the other fracs and how many bases they have. It would make sense that they too would just have to be at their base at the start of their duty period and that they could choose the base that they want from the list they have, but I don't know their rules. There was a time when NJA had a limit on how far away you could be and many fewer choices, but that isn't the case anymore and I don't see that ever happening again at NJA with all the pilots who are so spread out. Anyway, I'm done with this thread. I'm sure the original poster would appreciate info on how it works at the others though.
 
glasspilot said:
No, I didn't.

Unless you allow the "you can live anywhere as long as you get to your gateway" argument. If that's a fair argument then a frac with ONE gateway could say you can live anywhere, just like NetJets and we both know that would be BS.


Take all your gateways in the us. Draw a 2 hour circle around them. I still think there is more land mass in the US outside the circles than in.
Click to expand...
That been done. There isn't much space left over ... and that space is largely uninhabited. I will try to get you that map.
 
Don't bother. I think I'll concede the bet. Upon further reflection, a two hour drive is about 150 miles. That's a 300 mile diameter circle around all 200 of your gateways. I wasn't counting on such big circles and was counting on the mid west being big enough to make me right.

If you actually took the time to trim out of those circles all the bits that are un-commutable due to lack of roads or whatever I think I still might be right, but that's splitting hairs. You guys win.
 
Last edited:
glasspilot said:
No, I didn't.

Unless you allow the "you can live anywhere as long as you get to your gateway" argument. If that's a fair argument then a frac with ONE gateway could say you can live anywhere, just like NetJets and we both know that would be BS.


Take all your gateways in the us. Draw a 2 hour circle around them. I still think there is more land mass in the US outside the circles than in.
Click to expand...

Why are you making up an arbitrary 2 hour circle? I used to be based at LAX and lived in Seattle. Totally fine with the company as long as I was in LAX for the start of my tour.
 
Self edited for sarcastic remarks.
 
Last edited:

Share this page

Latest posts

Latest resources

Latest media

Carbon Cub FX-3 Shenandoah Valley
Carbon Cub at Kittyhawk
FX-3 in the backcountry
IFR Panel in a Carbon Cub FX-3
Cub-Provo-UT-c.jpg
Back
Top