>>2063210Nothing you said is wrong, and I can see how my lifestyle wouldn't make sense to you. Shrimply I hate turns (1 day trips for the CFIs) because I hate rush hour traffic. My preferred trips are 2 day, 2 leg transcons with a sign in after 11am on day one. I used to spend months seeing nowhere but home and JFK, the only bad part being that the TWA hotel on JFK fucking sucks.
The idea of dropping to/near zero sounds great, but I don't do premium because I don't care to get sudden pop-up trips on off days. Easy money, yeah, but it'd interfere with being buzzed at home. Similar issue with Short Call, I can't drink during it and why be at home if you're not sloshed? I prefer being unfit to fly whenever possible.
As someone who only PBS bids and then does nothing else with my schedule the rest of the month, yes life will be worse as a junior Captain, but it is still min mental effort. It's sleepwalking through life for more money. Otherwise I'm looking at having to be a day trader with premium trips, I just don't care whatsoever about thinking about work while at home. The senior FO life is the true money maker over being a junior Captain, I agree.
>>2063142Beyond pictures to share in flight, and writing notes to myself like my shopping list, I avoid using my phone in flight and NEVER connect to jet wifi. You company tracks it, whether or not they'll bust your ass is a different issue. But the FAA and NTSB care if you bend metal, and your iphone tracks app use with timestamps. I instead play my N3DS because the FAA and the company won't know about it unless the Captain snitches.
