Originally Posted by
Potatos_69
1. Probably a little under 100k year 1 but the pension will probably be far in excess of your current employer.
2. Lower chance of 350 but tbh 787/777 is a decent place to be with a wide variety of routes (350 only has a dozen or so of which a few you have no chance of getting for quite some time). New roster changes make the Boeing rosters not so brutal like they used to be.
3. Little effect unless it all leads to WW3 somehow.
4. Your roster will be close to triple 3 off rinse and repeat as a full time pilot unless you try to get some of the possible back to back flying that can give you chunks of days off. So commuting depends on how far away you want to commute from…
5. You’ll be operating fairly regularly and won’t have issues with 3/90 unless LTS. Sometimes 1/35 might come up. If you want to fly a plane lots, stick to short haul. LH is more for the lifestyle in comparison.
6. Night stops are what you make of them. If you want to be social most crew I’ve found are happy to be so long as you don’t seem like a !!!!. SH night stops are different to long haul as plenty of times we are on different rest to CC. If they’re on 10-12h rest while we are on 15+ they’re generally going to bed and sleeping instead of being social like we can be if not tired as hell.
thank you for the reply as well and appreciate you’ve given detail despite me already having received excellent full comments already