I just replaced an A300FF with a B767. Both require two pilots. After the change I found that I've got 10 extra V.Large aircraft pilots.
A300 flew four legs per day, while B767 flies only two, but I've never noticed that number of legs affects number of pilots.
Why B767 requires less pilots?
How long are those flights on the 767?
Remember, even if they aren't in the cockpit, you have to pay the pilots waiting to fly the plane after xxx hours of flight. So, 2 10 hour flights would actually take more crews than 4 5 hour flights.
This is wrong, Swiftus.
I mainly do 7-day-schedules and often I have 2 or 3 flights and the maintenance scheduled. I do this for all seven aircraft. After that I go to the staff office and hire new people. At this moment I have to hire all the pilots and crew members.
After adding some other flights, let's say for example 14 for each aircraft, I go to the staff page again and hire ground technic staff, management etc - but no more pilots or crew.
The result;
you need a fix amount of staff for each plane and the number of scheduled flights or their length isn't modeled in AWS.
Maybe you need more pilots because the manufacturer handbook of B767 or what source ever sami uses lists more pilots because normally B767 fly farther than A300 or samis sources name different numbers whyever...
sami uses some formula to determine how many pilots are needed based on what service that plane should be used for. And you hire that many the second you put a single flight on that plane, whether that flight takes only an hour or all day.