Author Topic: URGENT help from commercial pilots needed!! (Read 175 times)

deSelys · « **on:** January 12, 2006, 05:25:44 AM »

A colleague of mine is translating an article about the British Police. In this paper, the term 'sector days' appears in a table.

A lot of aviation pages come up when I search 'sector days' in google.

WTF does it mean???

A bit of explanation would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance...

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2006, 05:44:06 AM »

A sort of convention day if I'm not mistaken.

Dinger · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2006, 09:35:10 AM »

Always thought a "sector" was brit pilot-speak for a takeoff-flight-landing trip. You know, if your roster says:
LHR-LCA-LHR-EDW-LHR, that's 4 sectors.
But I don't know. The people to ask would be over at pprune, which has a heavy brit presence. Just go to the Q&A forum, and put it up.

cpxxx · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2006, 10:00:16 AM »

In airline terms each flight is considered a sector. So a sector day just refers to a number of flights grouped together between rest periods.

Normally the number of sectors is mentioned in the same breath. So you could have a four sector day or a two sector day etc. Pilots are paid per sector. So obviously a six sector day pays better than a two sector day.

I don't know what it means in relation to the police.

Golfer · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2006, 10:55:53 AM »

Over here where we drive on the correct (the right side!) of the road those are usually called "legs."

Glad I could learn something since I didn't even have a guess.