14 hour days would be great! Try 22 hour days if you can not sleep in the bunk bucking around in turbulence while basking in the radiation over the pole.gofly wrote:I guess I'm not very smart, and don't have any 705 flying experience, but can somebody explain this to me. Regional carriers are gruelling, I get it. 14+hour days, work 20 days a month, sleep in crappy motels and eat gross motel food - it's bad. But widebody? That was supposed to be the point where you have "arrived", so to speak. Work 8 days a month, nap enroute the plane while relief pilots take over, 1-3 day layovers in 5-star hotels in fancy destinations. Where does this exhausting fatigue come from? Not trolling, btw, just genuinely curious.
I fly wide body 22 days a month, mix of long haul across 12 time zones with night turnarounds at exactly the wrong times. Everyone I work with is doing 100 hours plus a month, minimum rest at home base, do not count the time in the bunk towards legal limits. 18 to 20 hours in the hotel at layovers after traffic and delays, depending where the theoretical 24 hour layover is.
Repeat for 10 years straight. Get leave assigned two or 4 days at a time, then max your hours that month as well. Eventually go sick and get a warning letter for taking sick days.
You have arrived.