How Hard Do You Work?

[NJA Capt]

I'm waiting for the answer from the XL and Citation X guys...now THERE'S the working class!

Citation X:
2004 - 430
2005 - 380
2006 - 445

Back in the day, I flew 700/year in the Ultra.

 

[AirBear8]

140 hours so far this year in the NJA Encore. But I had vacation plus company & airplane recurrent the 1st 6 months of the year so I should see another 200 hours+ for the year which would bring up to my average of 350 hours per year.

AirBear

 

[gunfyter]

Hmmm...

I get screwed no matter what fleet I go to.

How the heck do you fly fewer hours in the X then I do in the Falcon?

I had almost as many hrs by July 2006 in the X as you flew all yr. 353 hrs with 2 vacations and 2 recurrent tours from Jan - Jul 06

 

[acaTerry]

Hmmm...

I get screwed no matter what fleet I go to.

How the heck do you fly fewer hours in the X then I do in the Falcon?

I had almost as many hrs by July 2006 in the X as you flew all yr. 353 hrs with 2 vacations and 2 recurrent tours from Jan - Jul 06

It's the Marine in you Bro.

 

[johnsonrod]

Citation X:
2004 - 430
2005 - 380
2006 - 445

Back in the day, I flew 700/year in the Ultra.

Doesn't sound like the X pilots at Netjets work that much harder than other fleet pilots just looking at the hours per year. However, I am sure the number of transcon flights per year makes the total seem that much more tiring... Still, the total hours numbers seem lower than you would expect...

 

[jonjuan]

Hmmm...

I get screwed no matter what fleet I go to.

How the heck do you fly fewer hours in the X then I do in the Falcon?

I had almost as many hrs by July 2006 in the X as you flew all yr. 353 hrs with 2 vacations and 2 recurrent tours from Jan - Jul 06

Maybe differences in dispatch reliability?

 

[Allen1]

I'm in the ultra at netjets and have flown a whopping 85 hours this year and still have company recurrent and another sim recurrent to go to. I have a lot of time in the FBO chairs though.

 

[On Your Six]

Question for you frax pilots:

For NJA, CS and Flex, which fleets are the busiest and least busy within your company and what are the "average" hours per year for those pilots?

I know that aircraft assignment can be luck of the draw depending upon need at the time but fleet can impact QOL depending upon utilization. For NJA, I have heard the XL and X are the busiest fleets and I assume CJ3 is a busy fleet at CS but I am not quite sure about Flex.

 

[gunfyter]

I'll bet its the 60....

 

[Twotter76]

Well i'm on duty at home again. This seems to happen to me at least 3 days a month. I guess they must figure I was working too hard.

 

[walshsfly]

I'll bet its the 60....

More likely it's the 300

 

[JettBoii]

I work 2 jobs. Beat that.

 

[Fozzy]

I work hard to not work hard.

Anyways, I average about 400 hours a year. Maybe 500 on a bad year. I will edit when I pop open the laptop and see the actual numbers. They may be lower.

Oh that was on the Ultra for the last 4.5.

 

[DO-82 driver]

1999---120.9---Ultra, year I got hired
2000---387.2---Ultra
2001---373.7---Ultra
2002---451.4--Ultra
2003---396.8---Ultra
2004---352.8---XL Transition from Ultra to XL
2005---538.6---XL
2006---485.3---XL
So Far 2007---225---XL

 

[DirtyBeech]

At Flex it's probably the 300, and I think the highest time guy in the fleet flew 700 hours last year.