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Old 06-16-2011, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by scambo1 View Post
I've had one GSWC since I've been at Dal.

T, I have noticed the same thing - Greenslips with guys on shortcall...? OK
Its not OK, They have to follow the trip coverage ladder. What happens in most cases however is that the pilots don't understand the ladder and the coverage is correct. You have to look at when the trip reports relative to the status of pilots on reserve. Whitlow and 30 and 7 also play a major impact on who gets trips. Short call pilots often have Whitlow restrictions. Some have 24 and 7 issues depending on the trip. Crew scheds makes mistakes and in the last two years has been making a lot more mistakes but most of the time they are correct.
There were several trips this week that went out on GS to guys junior to me. I was sure I should have been given the trips. I always plug them into the legality tool on DBMS and was surprised to find in every case I had a legality issue even though I was sure I was good to go. I suspect that is what is happening with the short call pilots mentioned.
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