EBBU,
281 days in the year ! that's huge.
How many hours per working day ? (Or per year)
What about holidays ? can you take them ?
To answer your need for comparison :
My roster :
2 days-on, 1 night, 3 days-off (61 cycles per year), 183 duty "days" per year, plus training.
9 hours per day, average.
Days following a working night ("Sleeping days") are officially counted as "days-off".
Otherwise, I would say 243 days-on per year, with a cycle 4 days-on, 2 days-off... Even this way, I don't reach 281 days per year !
Week-Ends :
We usually don't count that, I just did it for you :
17 full Week-Ends off, 9 Saturdays off, 9 Sundays off per year.
Holidays :
We've got 27 holidays per year.
Plus 9 "compensation days" for 31 nights other French centers don't work.
Salary :
And to make the comparison complete, (EDIT) see my next post (EDIT)
Staffing:
I heard yesterday that there will be around 6 or 700 controllers less in France in the next 5 or 6 years (management goal). That' 15-18% less (same-ish as in Belgium it seems), half of them being replaced by "non-radar" ATCOs or even FISOs in small ARPTs (the ones where RYR goes ?).
This, when the traffic is due to rise...
(That was our weekly bad news for T&Cs
)
Anyway, Good luck to you !
