Typical Day For Freight Pilot

Jmanuel0926

Jmanuel0926

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Question goes out to freight pilots or to someone that has the answer. What's the schedule like for a freight pilot? UPS, FedEx, Evergreen ETC. What's a typical day for a freight pilot that's work for a large freight airline and a small company? Thanks in advance for any feedback

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usually.........sleep:)

It kinda depends on the company and run....Usually I'd say for the smaller companies. A couple legs sit for a while then a couple legs home.
 
Texasspilot said:
usually.........sleep:)

It kinda depends on the company and run....Usually I'd say for the smaller companies. A couple legs sit for a while then a couple legs home.
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Thanks for the feedback Texasspilot, are you a freight pilot? I'm going to be starting a new job working for Evergreen. At the moment I'm working on my Instrument so I was wonderig what is the life of a freight pilot. So when I get to Evergreen I know to stay on peoples good side... Maybe someday I could start flying with them.
 
I usually wake up round 9am. Get ready to the plane by 1130am. Preflight, order fuel, and check weather. Fly for an hour and half. Sit from anywhere between 15mins and 3 hours. Load a couple thousand pounds of stuff thats going to make my kids have 6 toes and then fly an hour and half home. Unload, postflight, drive home. Crack a beer. Rinse repeat.
 
Typical, generic, for UPS, would be 9pm show, back at the hotel at 6am, Mo-Fr, every other week.
 
Mikecweb, De727UPS thanks for the feedback. Its sounds like something I would not mind doing at all. Thanks again....
 
knowing what to expect at one of the Major Freight companies is one thing, but getting there is another. By the time you "pay your dues" working for up to that point, any schedule will look good. Working for a 135 freight company, our schedules totally depend on the customer and the run. We have day runs, night runs, out-and-backs...etc. Currently I show at 9pm and get back at 5am. I love it...good variety.
 
Jmanuel0926 said:
Thanks for the feedback Texasspilot, are you a freight pilot? I'm going to be starting a new job working for Evergreen. At the moment I'm working on my Instrument so I was wonderig what is the life of a freight pilot. So when I get to Evergreen I know to stay on peoples good side... Maybe someday I could start flying with them.
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Yup...my run starts at 7am 2.5 hours of flying sit for 5 or so then 2.5 or so back....if you wanna be on my good side you should bring donuts:)
 
Texasspilot said:
Yup...my run starts at 7am 2.5 hours of flying sit for 5 or so then 2.5 or so back....if you wanna be on my good side you should bring donuts:)
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Texasspilot just let me know where to bring them, Jelly or Coffee Rolls

What are the chances of getting based in New York or Orlando FL has a freight pilot?
 
some runs are relaxed, some will work your tail off. A run I used to be on ( and it doesnt exist anymore thanks to "efficiency changes")
went like this..

show at 730 PM for an 830 PM departure and fly, PHL - BWI - PHL - AGC - RIC - IAD - PHL - BWI - PHL.

about 7 hours of flight on a VFR night. Youd easily be pushing the 8 hour rule on an IFR night. Get home at 7 ish in the morning, in bed by 8.
 
Jmanuel0926 said:
Texasspilot just let me know where to bring them, Jelly or Coffee Rolls

What are the chances of getting based in New York or Orlando FL has a freight pilot?
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Flight express has a base there. Airnet has one plane outta there. No idea about 121 Cargo.
 
He said something about going to OAK. I hope they give him a hotel in OAK to catch a nap for a few hours. The days of a tent and sleeping bag should have gone out the window after Ryan ferried my 152 from SC to WA.
 
If it's the OAK run I did for IOE (which it sounds like), there isn't a sit in OAK. Turns right around and goes to PDX then BFI. Nice run... no sitting around and a relatively short duty day (er...night).
 
There was a 757 run that sounded just like that over peak. Wonder if the Metro run is getting "augmented" for Christmas.

Does that Metro come into the UPS ramp? I'll have to keep my eyes open next time I'm in OAK early in the morning.
 
jfleisher said:
some runs are relaxed, some will work your tail off. A run I used to be on ( and it doesnt exist anymore thanks to "efficiency changes")
went like this..

show at 730 PM for an 830 PM departure and fly, PHL - BWI - PHL - AGC - RIC - IAD - PHL - BWI - PHL.

about 7 hours of flight on a VFR night. Youd easily be pushing the 8 hour rule on an IFR night. Get home at 7 ish in the morning, in bed by 8.
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Was that in a Mitsubishi? If it was, you're a braver man than me.
 
na just a baron:( Id love to fly the MU2 someday though, anyone have a website of any of the companies that fly them like eps/bankair/ etc?
 
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