Originally Posted by
WR Cage
Using YVR as an example, AC and KLM cut over to 26L final over New Westminster while CI and JL go out to Pitt Meadows (Canuck arrival) before turning to final. CI and JL even turned down the ATC offer for visual approach completed by AC and KL.
Flights from Asia, regardless of carrier, do not fly the Canuck * into YVR.
I've seen plenty of Int'l & domestic carriers fly visual approaches when the ILS is off the air.
At YVR, when an ILS is off for maintenance, pilots have a choice of visual approach onto that runway or ILS on the other.
If the north ILS is off, it's often domestic carriers "needing" the ILS. This is to get shorter taxi times.
Originally Posted by
pitz
Seems a bit on the low side. Isn't an AC pilot's work-month approximately 80-84 hours block time? So even if you give them a whole month off for vacation, they're still going to be doing closer to 800 hours a year, not 600.
Plus invariably there's going to be dead-heading. And on the ULH's, time spent in crew rest which isn't credited against flight hours.
The 80 hours includes work, training, holidays, dead heading and sick time.
I don't know how much vacation pilots get. A senior employee would probably get 25-35 days/year. That could equal close to two months vacation.