AirBear8
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Lots of posts on this kind of stuff but I'll go ahead and give a quick overview.
Pay depends on which schedule, reserve or 7 on 7 off. 1st year is $39K or $46.3K. Tack on 10-20% for overtime and holiday pay. Reserve pays more because you work up to 18 days. 7-7 averages, well, half a month so 15 days. Reserves can fly any length trip up to 7 days, and that is the norm although I've heard of a number of pilots getting 4-6 days trips. Mandatory days off after a trip equal 4 days after 7 or 3 days after a shorter trip. Reserves can bid 4 "hard" days" off per month, either in blocks of 2 at least a week apart or in a single block of 4. Certain dates are blacked out but other than those you can usually get what you want.
Some trips you work your ass off, we have no 30 in 7 rules here so you may do 35-40 hours or more in a week. Other trips you may wind up babysitting a broke jet or sitting a lot of standby. We do a lot more sitting around than I saw at the airlines. I've had 7 day trips where I averaged less than 1 leg per day. We fly to thousand's of airports. In 9 months I think I've had one tour where I didn't land at a new airport. I'm on the Ultra which can land on a 3500' runway so we may see a bigger variety than the guys flying the Citation X or Falcons.
I assume you understand the domicile system (PBI, TEB, CMH, DAL, & LAX). If you're not within a day's drive of one of those think twice about coming here because we have no formal jumpseat agreements and no ability to non-rev or do ID90's.
AirBear
Pay depends on which schedule, reserve or 7 on 7 off. 1st year is $39K or $46.3K. Tack on 10-20% for overtime and holiday pay. Reserve pays more because you work up to 18 days. 7-7 averages, well, half a month so 15 days. Reserves can fly any length trip up to 7 days, and that is the norm although I've heard of a number of pilots getting 4-6 days trips. Mandatory days off after a trip equal 4 days after 7 or 3 days after a shorter trip. Reserves can bid 4 "hard" days" off per month, either in blocks of 2 at least a week apart or in a single block of 4. Certain dates are blacked out but other than those you can usually get what you want.
Some trips you work your ass off, we have no 30 in 7 rules here so you may do 35-40 hours or more in a week. Other trips you may wind up babysitting a broke jet or sitting a lot of standby. We do a lot more sitting around than I saw at the airlines. I've had 7 day trips where I averaged less than 1 leg per day. We fly to thousand's of airports. In 9 months I think I've had one tour where I didn't land at a new airport. I'm on the Ultra which can land on a 3500' runway so we may see a bigger variety than the guys flying the Citation X or Falcons.
I assume you understand the domicile system (PBI, TEB, CMH, DAL, & LAX). If you're not within a day's drive of one of those think twice about coming here because we have no formal jumpseat agreements and no ability to non-rev or do ID90's.
AirBear
