bootylicious - you can present it any way you want but if you are contracted for 775 hours a year then you can only do a little over 8 months at 90 hours per month - that's your lot. You will then have 3+ months off on full pay. No one I know of at GB has ever had that sort of roster. You may get the odd run of 90's but that is as far as it will go. If you elect to take the money and go for 900 then that's your choice - you can hardly complain that you fly more! Even then you cannot continue racking hours at your stated rate.
I do not want to be too rude here but there are a lot of people out there whose glass is half empty. I have spent my working life surrounded by a small but vocal band of pilots who claim to fly '100 hours a month' and seem to do several '30kt crosswind landings' a month. I have never flown at the rate they have even though I was working for the same airline, and despite flying to the same airport on the same day somehow had a wind straight down the runway or about 12 knots across! I flew 860 hours last year out of a planned 900 (only because I got sick for the last 2 weeks) yet I had only 2 months with more than 90 hours and none over 100. You guys may be the exception but if you are then you are the unluckiest people in aviation.
Last edited by Norman Stanley Fletcher; 24th May 2006 at 09:03.