Originally Posted by
Chesty Morgan
It's all about life work balance, who cares how you are propulsed...?
What's going to give you the best lifestyle? 2 weeks on 2 weeks off or 5 or 6 on, 2 or 3 off, 0300 starts and 0300 finishes, living away from home?
What will give you the best workstyle? The tedium of boring straight holes through Europe or over the Atlantic will soon become apparent.
I'd suggest, and I have done it, that TP work is more fun and satisfying than 4 or 5 hours watching the autopilot fly between ILS's...and then you get 2 weeks off to boot. I know what I'd rather do.
A jet is just a prop with a cowling around it.
But given there are many FO jet jobs that, in the UK at least, make substantially more than the
total flight deck salary of some UK turboprops, the glamour of flying a turboprop soon wears off…
If you’re that much in need of flying fulfilment just use some of the extra £100K you make sitting in the left seat of a jet vs a turboprop to rent a PA28.
I agree with some of the replies above. Would left seat ATR be more fun? 100% For a few years great. But you need to absolutely okay in your mind with the impact it’ll have on your future earnings. Delay it 3/4 years and that’s 3/4 years not spent as a training captain making a decent wedge, as that’s where the delay will hit.