Night flying/red-eyes at NetJets
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Night flying/red-eyes at NetJets
Been lurking on these boards for awhile now and haven't seen this one come up. How much night flying/overnighting do you typically fly at NetJets? A lot, a little, or hardly ever? Not asking about landing/ending your duty day at midnight, but rather flying all night and seeing the sunrise after a few hours airborne.
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Been lurking on these boards for awhile now and haven't seen this one come up. How much night flying/overnighting do you typically fly at NetJets? A lot, a little, or hardly ever? Not asking about landing/ending your duty day at midnight, but rather flying all night and seeing the sunrise after a few hours airborne.
I'm on the Hawker 800 XPC, hardly ever....
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typical for a Hawker dude:
Airline first day, meet up with your partner, preflight the a/c, and either do a ferry flight-get into position for the following day, or you'll sit at the FBO for 3-4 hrs, on stby, then hotel. Go flying for 5 days, you'll average about 3 legs (daily)- 10-12 hour duty days, lots of sitting between legs. Last day, 80% of the time you'll JUST airline home, no work. Most of the time it works out nicely, get home before 13:00. Sometimes they work you hard, last week I flew 32 hrs. got home past midnight, which by the way you get 2 extra days of pay $$$$$$. It works both ways, most of the time in our favor.
Hotels kick ass, Hyatt/Hilton/Marriot, free breakfast and internet. You get 3 daily meals-free. I used to drop $100-120 on a 4 day trip with the airlines, eventually it adds up.
hope this helps, cheers
Airline first day, meet up with your partner, preflight the a/c, and either do a ferry flight-get into position for the following day, or you'll sit at the FBO for 3-4 hrs, on stby, then hotel. Go flying for 5 days, you'll average about 3 legs (daily)- 10-12 hour duty days, lots of sitting between legs. Last day, 80% of the time you'll JUST airline home, no work. Most of the time it works out nicely, get home before 13:00. Sometimes they work you hard, last week I flew 32 hrs. got home past midnight, which by the way you get 2 extra days of pay $$$$$$. It works both ways, most of the time in our favor.
Hotels kick ass, Hyatt/Hilton/Marriot, free breakfast and internet. You get 3 daily meals-free. I used to drop $100-120 on a 4 day trip with the airlines, eventually it adds up.
hope this helps, cheers
#6
Have a buddy in the G200 he just did a flight PDX to San Juan PR. Departed later in the evening and arrived at 1030 am, About 6.5 hours of flight time. Of course I am in the ultra so I don't see any of that
#7
2006 I did one Red-eye: BFI-IAD
2007 I did two Red-eyes: BFI-JFK and BFI-MCO
So far, I've already flown one Red-eye for 2008: BFI-Bermuda (that was a long night -- those Seattle folks seem to like the Red-eye flights -- must be all that coffee they drink!)
All 4 flights departed around 10 or 11pm and landed on the east coast at dawn.
FWIW I'm in the Citation X.
2007 I did two Red-eyes: BFI-JFK and BFI-MCO
So far, I've already flown one Red-eye for 2008: BFI-Bermuda (that was a long night -- those Seattle folks seem to like the Red-eye flights -- must be all that coffee they drink!)
All 4 flights departed around 10 or 11pm and landed on the east coast at dawn.
FWIW I'm in the Citation X.
Last edited by jetlag7; 01-28-2008 at 10:37 AM.
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Correction, if the company doesn't get you to your base by midnight on your 7th day its an extra 3 days pay not 2 days, that's $938 for a first year FO on a 7 on 7 off schedule.
Last edited by NetJets_DA2Easy; 01-28-2008 at 12:34 PM.
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