TurboJ
TurboJ,
You are right that an uncalled standby is a thing of beauty but I'm afraid terms and conditions vary greatly across the industry. I gather you are with the big orange bird while I fly turboprops for a large UK carrier. I would argue that your company are probably a level up from mine in terms of pay and rations and this goes some way to explaining our different perceptions.
As an example Your uplift as SFO is £10k per annum, mine is £500
Your roster is 5/3 5/4 ours is 5/2 6/3
Your base salary as a SFO in say year 2 or 3 is likely to be £45k, mine is £29k
Your duty pay is paid at £15 a sector, mine is £1.91 an hour so you make £7500 a year on top of salary while I make £2000-£3000.
It's a very very big difference indeed depending upon who you work for!!
I'd be very interested to get an idea of your rosters so we can compare workload offline if you'd care to PM me!
No offence intended by the way - though we work for rival outfits it is interesting to compare notes as professional aviators.
Hope you're enjoying the tennis!