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Mxsmanic wrote:

I don't think active flight crews have the free time to read/post.

They don't work any more than other types of occupations do.

You'd be surprised. A pilot is typically paid for about 18 hours during
an average week, yet often works double that.

Indeed, flight crews have strict legal limitations on their working hours.

No, they have strict legal limits on their *flying* hours, and minimums
on their rest inbetween workdays. That's it. In the US, for example I
can work six 16-hour days in a row, have 24 hours off, and do it all
over again. Provided each 24-hour period includes less than 8 hours of
actually driving the airplane, this is perfectly legal.

Prepping the plane, waiting for fueling and deicing, ground delays,
transferring between planes, sitting on the ground for hours between
flights because of poor scheduling -- all of that is work, none of it is
paid at many airlines, and it doesn't count against the limits on flying
hours.

I'll grant that they may simply not be interested.

We're out here, and we're interested. But frankly, you're so absurdly
combative and unreceptive to people who DO KNOW the answers to your
questions, that I don't think any of us really have any interest left in
educating someone who doesn't want to learn. I know I don't.

When you do something for a living, it can become much
less interesting than it is when you do it only as a hobby.

What you do for a hobby isn't remotely the same as what I do for a
living.