FmrFreightDog

Gotcha... Sorry, I thought you were talking about initial bidding. When you look at an open time trip in iCrew, if the A is an LCA, it should be noted by his name.

buzzpat

Dude, you're sharp shooting way to early in your career. You're gonna waste a lot of valuable oxygen. You got lucky. Why don't you concentrate on probation and consolidation?

The only way to know who the LCAs are is to see LCA by their name on a rotation. And that doesn't guarantee it's an OE.

This is the entitlement philosophy that I abhor. Do your job first. If you must, game the system later. How long have you been on property Juggy?

buzzpat

Nk it doesn't give you employee numbers. It will AWARD/AVOID but it won't identify. Just like if you want to NO FLY a guy, you have to look up his number.

Timbo

That's always been a problem for commuters. I have been commuting for 18 years, and I've never flown a greenslip. They usually come at the least opportune time, like an hour after the last flight to ATL has left MCO.

I got called for an inverse assignment (same 2X pay) last fall, at 10pm, on a Sunday night while I was watching the NFL playoffs and drinking beer. She wanted me in ATL in two hours to fly 16 hours to Johannesburg.

When I got done laughing I told her I didn't think I was her guy, keep looking. I guess they never did find anyone sober that night and cancelled the flight.

Or they come on holidays, and since I've had 4 kids, I NEVER would answer the phone Dec. 23-26, or the Monday-Weds. prior to Thanksgiving.

There are some things more important than money.

My favorite trips are the IOE's, where you stay home and get paid. Much more cost/time off effective than flying overtime. But for the poor souls who have to live in PTC, at least they can make some extra money flying extra days. I don't think I want to live that close to my work. As one senior Capt. said to me long ago, "The problem with Green Slips is...you have to show up and fly them!"

What we ALL should be doing is, Green Slip With Conflict only!

That way, you don't have to work 'extra' days to still get GS pay.

LivingTheDream

This ^^^^ (in an ideal world!).

RockyBoy

I'm not so sure about that.

If you just put in Award trips with LCA and have no other restrictions you will get trips with them even if you are junior. It's still a crapshoot because they obviously don't do OE all the time so you might end up flying with them. I've had 2 trips bought in the last 2 months and got ALL my trips in November with LCA. Some LCA are junior and get horrible trips over the weekends that no senior FO's will bid.

The bad part about playing the LCA game is if it is a crappy trip you won't swap it because you hope they will buy it, when they don't buy it you end up flying a crappy trip with a LCA. (90% of them in SLC are awesome though)

thefoxsays

Which are the 10% who aren't awesome?

maddogmax

Before a OE scheduler can remove a pilot from a trip they have bid, they have to call them and ask if it is OK. It is hard to believe but occasionally the pilot will say no, they want to fly their trip. Never did understand that.

Imapilot2

A Delta 757 clipped wings in MSP with a commuter E175.

GunshipGuy

Start with part that describes how to compute the RAW score. Then do an example using your own schedule. You should be able to compute this in less than a minute.