Not to mention paying for your food and accommodations during training. However, there are those who still manage to break the 800 hour mark. As long as one has no great expectations from FR then one shall not be disappointed.
Under the Brookfield contract one is paid based on Scheduled Block Hours (SBH). Back in the day... the (SBH) were pretty fat. In other words, one could fly a SBH flight of 2:30 in 2:15... and you were credited with 2:30 hours for pay purposes. At the end of the month, one could have 100 hours on the log book, and have a pay credit of 110 hours.
That all changed in either late 2007 or early 2008. FR tightened their SBH. In fact the flight time was more than the SBH. With that being said, one would fly the same SBH of 2:30 in 2:45... and still credited with only 2:30 minutes for pay purposes. As you can see it becomes a losing proposition. Now with that being said, one can fly 100 hours in a month and be credited with only 90 hours for pay purposes. Hourly pay is not what it seems to be... or is it
. Of course this was the experience from EGSS.
But at the end of the day... it was nice to have a 5/4 roster. Even flying out of base... the 20 Euro/hr was sufficient to meet hotel, transport, and meal expenses.