Originally Posted by
RAT 5
Salary wise, it's a yearly salary pro-rated over the 7 months paid either fully for 7 months or split over 12 months, the choice remains with the employee.
1. Are you a full-time employee with all the protections that implies?
2. If you are not an employee how can what you do in your time off be controlled?
3. Are you guaranteed a recall, and what compensation do you get if not? Are you then made redundant?
4. What is the average annual flying hours productivity of full-time pilots? If you fly 100hr/m and no SBY's for 5 months you will produce at greater rate than 7/12th of an annual average. If you fly 75% of an annual average you could argue for 9/12 salary.
I had this at a young airline, non-union, where I worked 50% days for 50% pay, but produced 65% of average. No discussion. Long flights & no SBY's. Then came the union and 50% was limited to 450hr/yr.
It's exactly as Chris E described above. My son (24 yrs old) is on a 7/5 and has completed his first year. He's just gone back for his second year and his base(at his bid request) was changed from GLA to MAN. After the ground school PTR/CRM/LPC/OPC (MAN/GLA/LGW-Sim) et al he is rostered to fly 6 sectors with training Cpt then all back to normal FO duties. The second PY 7/5 ends in November and he will go full time after that. He got paid for the full 12/12 prorated on 7/5 basis. He spent his time studying music and learning to play the guitar.