matt
No, the idea is that your meant to live in Stoke on Trent half way between MAN and BHX. Many Airlines put it to good use, TFLY have a seasonal base at LPL, crewed with MAN staff, most of whom live in LPL hence the CAA line on voluntary basis. It's meant to benefit those that live next to Airfield X but are based at XX 90 mins away.
Other examples of dual basing are EMA-BHX / GLA-EDI these are fine . There was a previous moan about Jet 2 MAN and BLK not sure if this is the case anymore.
I fully support the idea of dual basing as long as its voluntary. I suspect in this case the Pilot has signed up for dual basing on offer of employment (so in my view voluntary) lives miles away from one or the other airport possibly in the opposite direction then once in has taken exception to it. As any loco Pilot will tell you, living any distance from base is a killer, let alone two.
I used to run a dual base BHX/EMA, main base BHX, but all the Pilots lived at EMA, worked a treat except I forgot to mention it to the CAA, aagh more tea n biscuits
