Originally Posted by
JammedStab
How about, when you are landing three times a day, you build your proficency more quickly than when landing three times a month. Then your total time really means something besides hours spent sleeping and reading.
Agree entirely. The other side of course is you are more exposed and have less time to devote to planning each sector. I find on long haul we were able to cover more eventualities during the course of the flight so that we had everything planned out. Less ability to do that on short haul but of course you end up flying, as you said, more often and into the same airports more frequently.
I found my systems and SOPs knowledge was better long haul, but my operational manipulation skills were better short haul. Maybe it all balances out.