Typical Trips?

[TurboS7]

Charter 737-800, my last trip.......Commercial to BNA, van to HOP 18 hour layover. Fly to Gander fuel fly to FRA. 14 hour layover, fly to KEF, fuel,fly to DOV. limo to PHL commerical to PIT. 25 hour layover with 24 off, fly PIT to Gander fuel, fly to FCO(Rome) 14 hour layover. DH on aircraft to JFK, commerical home. 7 day trip 29 hours of block time, 29 hours of credit time. Charter is great you never know where you are going to go and wind up.

 

[brucek]

Charter 737-800

Is this a BBJ? I ask because of the NAT segments, although I see you stopped at CYQX and BIKF enroute (and I realize that LH is running a B738 on NAT as well).

Charter must be great- but do you ever get "dry" periods where there's nowhere to fly to?

Thanks,

Bruce.

 

[Cornelius]

Alot of you guys will find this very amusing but its what I fly on a on a regular basis for Lakes on the Brasilia side. Every trip I fly is 3 days and typically log 87 hrs per month.

Day One

CYS-DEN
DEN-CPR
CPR-DEN
DEN-CPR
CPR-DEN
DEN-CPR

Day Two

CPR-DEN
DEN-CYS
CYS-DEN
DEN-CPR
CPR-DEN
DEN-CPR

DAY THREE

CPR-DEN
DEN-CPR
CPR-DEN
DEN-CYS
CYS-DEN
DEN-CYS

Sound like alot of fund doesn't it! I got a high speed going to a couple cities in N. Dakota tomorrow and I'm sure I'll get lost or somehow find myself turning torward Casper (CPR) since thats the only place I know how to get to recently.

Peace!

 

[altimaklr]

Cornelius, does such a repetitive schedule ever become a little mind-numbing? I'm sure flying in scenic Rockies makes up for some of it..

-Sean

 

[Cornelius]

The trips are very similar in nature to the movie ground hog day. We still have a lot of fun though.

 

[TurboS7]

At the present time we are the only 737-800 operator that has 180min ETOPS authorization with ops spec to fly all over the world. The flying never stops we are as busy as you can get.

 

[ClearRight]

Here's one of the rare 5-day trips I did last month:

Day 1
DH SLC-COS-DFW
DFW-MEM (short layover: 9.5 hrs)

Day 2
MEM-DEN
DEN-BNA (15 hour layover)

Day 3
BNA-DEN
DEN-MSO
MSO-DEN (19 hour layover)

Day 4
DEN-MSO
MSO-DEN
DEN-MSO (22 hour layover)

Day 5
MSO-SLC (off 4 days)

 

[enigma]

Spirit Airlines, MD80 scheduled 121. We don't make much, but this is the best part time job a pilot ever had.

My last four days consisted of back to back two day trips. 1700 show to fly FLL-DEN, ron. Leave the hotel around 1600 for the return trip to FLL. Off by midnight. Do it again.

Our schedule has a mix of one, two ,three, four and five day trips. Most days are two leg days. The occasional three leg day and no four leggers to my knowledge.

A typical pairing would be to start in DTW, then: LGA- RSW-ron-ORD-RSW-ron-LGA-FLL-ron-DTW. 20 hours flying.

We do have some butt-busting redeyes that leave LAX at midnight for ORD then continue to FLL with a 11am arrival. That pairing can be brutal if you spent the previous week on AM shows.


Beats working


regards,
8N

 

[Tri-holer]

Typical trips
From the computer to the bathroom.
Down to the mailbox to send off some resumes.
Over to the fax machine to send off some resumes.
Out to Home Depot to get a job - no openings.

You get the picture.

 

[larry]

In the pattern
To the practice area
Back in the pattern

15 minute layover

to the practice area
In the pattern
To untowered airport 11 miles away
In the pattern

15 minute layover

in the pattern
to the practice area
In the pattern
To untowered airport 11 miles away
In the pattern

 

[Jump Pilot]

Skydiver driver schedule from the weekend:


Saturday

Report at 8:30 a.m. for 9:00 wheels up.

Actual lift off at 11:45 a.m. due to cancellation.

Flew 8 loads finishing at 4:45 p.m. No more business - beer light.

Sunday

Report at 10:30 a.m. for 11:00 a.m. wheels up.

Wheels up at 10:50 a.m.

Flew 8 loads finishing at 7:45 p.m.


16 total loads for a flight time of 8.8 hours.

 

[skybuda]

For those of us that like the standups or highspeeds here is what my four week bid has instore this month.

Week one
Off till sat night then CLT-TYS 10:00 show back in town by 7:50am

Week two,three,four

Sunday,Monday,Tuesday nights
CLT-CAE

8:30 show back in town eveymorning at 7:50am

if you can stand the working the back side of the clock standup are really not that bad if you can find the right ones. Eveyone this month has just shy of 8 hours or ground time.

With the late shows and early retruns it makes the 15 days off feel more like 21 which for someone in the regionals is not really that bad since a bid is 28 days. Granted you still have to live off of the min bid garantee. 16:15 of flight time just isnt going to pay much otherwise.

SB

 

[rchcfi]

And for those freight guys out there, how's this one.

Mon (show at 0530)
MKC-SLN-HYS-DDC 14 hour layover
DDC-HUT 2 hour layover
HUT-SLN-MKC arrive home at 2330 SAME evening

TUE-FRI (show at 0530)
MKC-SLN-HYS-DDC 12 hour layover
DDC-HYS-SLN-MKC arrive home at 2200 SAME evening

I also did this one:

MON-FRI (show at 1830)
SGF-TUL-PWA-FSM-LIT-STL-SGF arrive home at 0400 logging approx. 6-7 hours per night making it a long week...About 120 hours per month.

Ah yes, those were good times!