I worked over ten years at an orange LCC based in U.K. and mainland Europe.
The full time rosters gave me health issues. I found it a great deal more tiring to work that schedule than I did working at EK. Long haul and short haul both have their issues and they require different rest strategies. I never figured out an effective short haul rest strategy aside from going part time, which I couldn’t afford to do. Whatever works on an individual level is what you should do. For me, the flying was also a great deal more rewarding. To take an aircraft sixteen hours, over the North Pole, and then descend over the Bay Area to land in San Francisco I found to be infinitely more rewarding than taking passengers from Gatwick to Alicante several times a week. Horses, courses, and all that. |
Originally Posted by Maz11
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Give me a single deep night flight rather than 5 days of 4 sectors starting at 5am any day of the week.
P.s Don’t forget your tea bag, driver. |
Spot on!
Been there, done that! Prefer to sleep in my own bed every night! Took a while to realise ☺️ |
Talk about thread creep..... :cool:
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Originally Posted by hec7or
(Post 10893844)
You can keep it, I prefer flying shorthaul in the UK and that's my choice.
Like I Love Twins I too was orange for over 12 years and have to agree that I never managed to adjust to the long term cumulative fatigue that brought. 4 sector max FDP days followed by minimum rest, followed by another 4 sector max FDP day, (repeat for 5 days), has left many in that field being told by their AME that they shouldn’t be full time anymore, but subsequently cannot afford (or can’t get) part time. Of course people cope with different roster types differently, but unless you’ve operated both I really don’t think you’re qualified to discuss the differences.
Originally Posted by hec7or
(Post 10893844)
proper FTLs and therefore have had plenty of rest between flights in my own time zone
And the numerous occasions where people fell asleep driving home and went straight on when there was a round-about obviously proves that the FTLs in the EU are so robust. Like you I managed to do all those things while working Low Cost too, but I found it a lot harder than I do here, where I still manage to do all those things.
Originally Posted by hec7or
(Post 10893844)
while Maria from the Philipines brings up your kids for you
Yes there are multiple posts, but a 16 hour ULR where I spend 7 hours at the controls, sleep for 7, then come back to operate the descent and landing really isn’t that difficult if you manage to organise your rest correctly. There will always be fatigue in this industry, it’s one of our greatest threats, but I’ll take that ULR over a 2 crew MAN-SSH turnaround any day. Back to the original topic, I hope everyone who is moving to pastures new through no fault of their own finds themselves back in the air (if that’s what they choose), as soon as possible. Every part of this industry needs some good news soon! |
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