as214 said:
Too much bullsh*t and intellectual dishonesty on this thread.
Hey As214, I am not sure why you are implying bullshit and dishonesty here, I have given a pretty accurate account of MY days at NJA. Do you work here also? Would you like to explain why you have a problem with my data?
And no Gunfighter, I am not in the X. Had the ability a few years ago and decided not to for the obvious reasons. It's a cool plane but I was looking for QOL.
Here's the tour I just returned from:
Day1: Airline only, go to hotel (started at 0445L today), 10.5 hours rest
Day2: 3 legs, 9 hours duty, 13 hours rest
Day3: 4 legs, 10.5 hours duty, 14.25 rest
Day4: 1 leg, 10 hours duty, 11 hours rest
Day5: 5 legs, 14 hours duty, 12 hours rest
Day6: 4 legs, 12.25 hours duty, 16 hours rest
Day7: 4 legs, 12.5 hours duty (7.2 hours flight today---the most in one day this tour) and then ferry to my home base and in my house at 2000L.
For the year 2005 I was on duty (including training) for 161 days. I only had 2 weeks vacation last year. I used some sick days to knock out one tour. Of the 161 days I did not fly for 43 of them (training, airline only, etc.). This has me flying the line for
118 days or 9.83 days per month. Pretty close to my example above.
Hey, even if you guys want to figure all 161 of my work days into the discussion, that is still only
13.4 days per month for ALL of my obligations away from home. That works out to about 16.6 days off and actually at home each month.
Again, lets remember that many of the airline folks that may only work 11 or 12 days per month are still doing some travel on THEIR time. Not me.