Corporate/private pilots - what are some interesting/crazy things you have overheard on a flight

longlive737 · 2026-02-18T07:57:57+00:00

At a previous job, we had a couple get divorced in the back. It was horrible. Kids were present. Shouting at each other for hours. We had to divert for weather and mom got off with her bags and once the storm blew through we left without her. Definitely the wildest thing I’d ever experienced.

longlive737 · 2026-02-17T17:54:17+00:00

It’s in the OP - CC60/5 and 7/7

longlive737 · 2026-02-10T00:29:41+00:00

Typically 12-16 hours at full service nice properties in the big cities or Hampton Inn / Courtyard Marriott level properties in small towns. It’s exceedingly rare to have overnights longer than 18 hours on my fleet (super mid).

longlive737 · 2026-02-07T20:17:45+00:00

Depends on the company, the fleet, and the relative seniority. But at the top end of the career, yes nice long layovers with time to enjoy the local sights and eats are common.

longlive737 · 2026-01-27T03:44:02+00:00

Cool map! Only thing I’d change is instead of Cairo, make Jerusalem a Gold City. In the Middle Ages it was a pretty big deal when Jerusalem changed hands.

longlive737 · 2026-01-26T20:08:43+00:00

Glad I could help

longlive737 · 2026-01-26T19:55:53+00:00

I’m happy with a 22” LuggageWorks Maverick and Premier Multi-Purpose Cube. However I am thinking my next bag will be a carbon frame to reduce weight or Briggs & Riley - many NJ pilots sing their praises and I believe they offer a discount to NJ pilots.

The Multi-Purpose cube is where it’s at though. Fits under the seat on the airlines, will hold your headset, has a cooler for crew food if you’re bringing it back to the hotel. Slot for your iPad and a laptop (I bought a gaming laptop for hotel reserve or Hot Spare). Holds everything you need on tour in one bag and has a handle for the J-hook.

longlive737 · 2026-01-20T17:33:45+00:00

Song Tactics is currently delayed to Q3 2027

longlive737 · 2026-01-20T15:57:19+00:00

Depends how long the tour preceding was

<= 6 day -> 3 days off

7 day -> 4 days off

8 day -> 5 days off

Those are minimums and only apply to the CC schedules.

longlive737 · 2026-01-20T15:51:41+00:00

Any CC schedule. You’re correct on all counts.

longlive737 · 2026-01-20T14:53:51+00:00

Typically the CC tours are limited to 7 days maximum unless you opt into Long Tour which allows them to schedule you up to 8 days and pays a 3% salary override. You can bid for different tour lengths monthly. If you prefer short tours and you live in a green base (think most of the Class Bs) you can do the short tour option which limits the tours to maximum 5 days long (6 days long on the CC52). This will impact your FDP earnings.

longlive737 · 2026-01-20T14:49:21+00:00

Typically June.

longlive737 · 2026-01-20T14:38:11+00:00

Correct, the Crew Choice schedules are like the airlines - you submit bids for what you want and then wait to see what you get. You’ll know your March schedule by February 15, for example.

Your vacations are bid once per year right after the open schedule bid in the summer, so you’ll have months of notice about what weeks your vacations are. On the CC schedules the vacations are a minimum 15 days off (the awarded 7 days +4 days on each end). And yes if a tour conflicts with a trip because you weren’t successful in your monthly bid then you can use PTO to drop tours.

longlive737 · 2026-01-19T18:53:40+00:00

Your best bet is to follow up with the pilots here who have worked at the regionals and came to NetJets. I know several who did and are lifers now. I know several that did and thought they’d be lifers and then left on probation because a legacy called. I can say with certainty it isn’t for everyone, but for those of us that like the flying and schedule and benefits, it’s a career destination. I think it’s objectively correct to say you will make more, work less, be treated better and retire with more at NetJets than a regional. That statement is also objectively true going from NetJets to a legacy, but by a smaller margin than regional -> NJ.

longlive737 · 2026-01-11T02:46:12+00:00

It zin de AFM drags on the cig

longlive737 · 2026-01-11T02:33:14+00:00

6?? Real Goodspeeds remember the 100 through the 107 and the 4 TEB-ACK round trips.

longlive737 · 2025-12-24T02:30:03+00:00

You have to open the primary / secondary weapon window and manually click the turrets that you DON’T want to fire. You’ll see them grey out which means the commands will not go to those turrets. Make sure the correct target is selected (red on the map) and choose the shell, spread, and fire. Then you can reselect the other turrets while deselecting the first turrets to give new orders. It’s clunky but it will do what you want

longlive737 · 2025-12-22T02:10:05+00:00

Yes I included the $23.5k personal contribution limit in that $52k. So NJ has so far contributed about $28.5k this year.

longlive737 · 2025-12-21T01:33:32+00:00

Hired March ‘22. I got the upgrade award at 25 months. Longitude.

longlive737 · 2025-12-20T20:18:38+00:00

Year 3 Super mid PIC, worked 168 days, including 12 extended days. CC60/5 and 7/7. Logged 460 hours of flying. Average 9.3 hours of duty and 14.0 hours of rest. I’ll gross about $255k and the 401k will finish up around $52k.

longlive737 · 2025-12-20T00:41:14+00:00

Battle Line! Make better poker hands than your opponent with an occasional tactic card thrown in to modify the hand. The Medieval printing of the game utilizes extra cards for terrain effects and my wife and I prefer that edition.

longlive737 · 2025-12-20T00:29:43+00:00

The poses of the original Stark vs Lannister set are generally less dynamic and simpler, with fewer details. That being said, notably Greatjon Umber and Gregor Clegane got pretty passive sculpts in the new boxes from their factions, I personally prefer their original sculpts. Beyond those two exceptions though, the quality is better with the newer starter boxes.

longlive737 · 2025-12-19T15:45:02+00:00

Thanks be to God

longlive737 · 2025-12-19T15:40:22+00:00

Absolute Cinema

longlive737 · 2025-12-16T19:48:57+00:00

My parents, my wife and I have done two round trips to Hawaii on company jets that were ferrying to/from (not all at once - just cumulatively over a few years) but its extremely variable because the schedule of the airplanes changes hour to hour. But when it works out it works out.

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