The typical day is the same as a rotary-wing squadron in terms of collateral duties and such. The biggest difference is that for a training hop you might end up going a lot farther than in a helo.
Right now your duty stations are MCAS New River in Jacksonville, NC and MCAS Miramar in San Diego. That's it. I'll leave it to others to give the relative merits of each.
Right now, the V-22 community is like a roach motel--you check in, but don't check out. That's because there still aren't enough qualified pilots to fill all the required V-22 billets. Only a few senior field-grade have escaped. A few have gotten parole to EWS or C&S. Everyone else recycles into another fleet squadron, the FRS, group, or VMX. This should start to change over the next year or two. By the time you'd have to worry about it V-22 guys will take most of the same B-billets as other rotary-wing communities.
As far as the outside, I'll let you know when I get there. Very few V-22 pilots have gotten out yet, so it's hard to say. V-22 time is "powered lift," but you will have commercial airplane and helo certificates, if you choose to get them. It's up to employers how they want to characterize the time. I'd suspect that smaller companies might understand the value of V-22 time once one interviews, but bigger companies, with more rigid policies and hundreds of applicants, might be less willing to consider it.
