A Day In The Life Of A Pilot Options

[talldude]

What's a day in the life of both charter and airline pilot? I know of some points but perhaps any real charter or airline pilot can feel in the gap for me. I'm talking specifics here not broad points. Like list every action starting from your arrival at the airport to the time to catch a shuttle to the hotel at your destination. I'm just curious as to what goes on behind the scenes. For example it was only 3 years ago I learned that there is such an employee titled the "flight dispatcher" who plans the flight and gets weather info. Before that I always assumed the pilots planned the flight, lol I feel really dumb now.

[Fast Jet]

Trixie,

So, you walk into ops and they give you a bunch of paperwork.

Do you then sit down with your Captain and go through it with him/her or do you find a corner somewhere to study it? I wonder if you could tell me when do you allocate the time to analyse all the data, the Met, the fuel, the levels, etc., etc., the lot?

Therefore, how much time do you get to do a gross error check to see if the data is correct for this flight?

Or do you Gross Error check then plug in all the figures into the FMS?

How much time have you got? If you turn up early - and the stuff is not ready, can you ask for your paperwork or do you stay in the queue of next slot next served, my point being, do you get your paperwork on time, or do they mess you about - do you ever get rushed to preapre for flight and get into the air, if so, IF SO, can you utilise your power to bring things down to a manageable speed or do you have to play catch up to the departure slot.... I am merely interested, for future jobs.