Six days. That’s the most consecutive days I can work. I don’t do it often. Most schedules are built 4 on 3 off. Every now and then the stars align….or unalign….and I end up working 6 days straight. Work started on Tuesday June 22nd and ended on Sunday June 28th. Each day I had morning [...]

Flown a whole 6 hours this month. Only two hours with passengers on board. Slow month. Next month I have regular reserve. This means I simply know which days I work…not when…not where. I think it’s because the airport standby lines had weekends off…thus they went senior. Airline hiring seems to still be a slow [...]

One advantage airline pilots have over mere mortals….moving our works days around. As I have blogged about in the past, I have a baby on the way. I’ve made all but one prenatal appointment with my wife. To do this I have been moving my reserve days around. If I were a line holder I [...]

I sometimes forget that my domicile is someone else’s overnight. A buddy I worked with at ATP had an overnight here last night. We arranged to go out for dinner. My wife and I picked him and his flight attendant up at their hotel. During an awesome Greek dinner we discussed our jobs and my [...]

I’m supposed to be sitting in a cockpit flipping switches and preparing for a flight right now. Instead I am sitting in the bowels of the airport waiting for my plane. Picked up an overtime trip today. A 5 1/2 hour turn. Supposed to have left at 8:05AM and be back at 2:05PM. Not going [...]

There is a little hiring going on. A friend of mine who was at the soon to be no more Lynx Aviation (Frontier regional) got a gig fairly quickly after leaving Lynx. It helped a lot that she is a very good pilot and has around 1000 or so hours of turbine time. She got [...]