Non-sked 135 and days off?

[EMB170Pilot]

I promise when I open my 135 company, I will never treat my pilots the way I was treated when I worked at 135 in S. Florida.

BASTAGES!!!

 

[falcondrivr]

The Reg Actually Is Worded 13 Rest Periods Of 24 Straight Hours Per Calendar Quarter. Not The Same As 'you Got Tuesday Off'. No Charter Company Is Required To Give You Any Days Off. Also, The Rule Is 'no Company Will Assign And No Pilot Will Accept' Any Duty That Exceeds The '10 Hrs Of Rest In A 24 Hr Period'. So, Both The Company And The Pilots Are Liable To The Feds If Misteaks Are Found. This Is The Number 1 Thing Feds Screw Companies For On A Base Inspection. Mostly Because Pilots Make Errors Logging Their Duty And Flight Time.
Check Far 135.263;267.

Also, Age 60 Rule Only Applies To 121. Pass The Medical And You Can Fly Charter Forever.

 

[*#$% Headwinds]

The 135 operator I work for has always given us "hard" days off (currently 2 weekends off, on call the third). That said, they have always implied that thay don't have to do that. They believe they could say "If you didn't fly yesterday, it was your day off." We actually are busy enough that, except for the weekends, if you are on call, you are almost guaranteed a trip that day so they have to give us hard days off to meet the regs, and the weekends are slow enough that they figure they only need a couple of pilots on call to handle any work that might come in.

The pay is pretty excellent, but QOL sucks because you work hard for those dollars. If the hard days off went away, they would quickly need to replace a lot of young pilots with plenty of time to move on and nothing to lose by going to the regionals. The most frequent complaint? "It would (almost) be worth the pay cut to only work 15 days a month." We currently work 24 days.