Originally Posted by
newKnow
FtB,
I'm gonna wait to see how it all plays out, and I admit I had to skim all of you guys analysis on what you think is gonna happen with the new reserve changes. But, if your goal is to stay at home, I think you should be ok.
Here's how I look at it. The company and union saw a lot of people complaining about being forced to commute to reserve. These changes probably address those concerns by not allowing a difference of 1 point in RAW score to be the cause of someone who doesn't want to fly to have to fly when there is someone out there who want's to fly. Make sense? (I know, probably not.
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Ok. Maybe an example is better. Let's say you are a reserve pilot who lives in base and you want to stay at home. You've got a raw score of 0, but there is a guy who has to commute to reserve who has vacation at the end of the month, so he has a RAW score of 16. Both of you start your reserve days on the 1st, and a trip comes up for the second. (Of course, he's in base because he had to sit SC his first day.) He want's to get out of there because he burning up hotel expenses, or his crash pad buds are in town and they don't take baths, or something. Under the old system, even though he wants the trip to escape the funk, he can't get it, and he's stuck and unhappy, while you get the the trip that takes you away from home.
I'm thinking the buckets and increased seniority honoring provisions will even themselves out and allow people to fly when they want to based on seniority. If I'm on reserve and someone gets a trip I wanted because he's more senior to me, at least I know he wanted it and it's not a situation where he has to go fly and I have to sit in a hotel room just because of a point or two.
I think the changes assume that there are a certain percentage of people in every category on reserve who want to fly. For the people who want to stay at home, they should be able to do so, up to a point.
Well, that's how I see it.
New K
New,
I think the changes to YS and credit for SC were badly needed and good for all reserve pilots and especially helpful if you commute. And I hope things do indeed even themselves out, you're a glass half full and I hope you're exactly right New.
What I fear though is that a bucket system with a high threshold to bucket 2 will in essence allow a senior pilot to fly 0 times that month while a pilot that is 1 number junior to fly 60+ hours all for the same amount of money.
All in the name of fixing this perceived injustice: "A senior pilot is forced to fly simply because his RAW value is one point lower than an available junior pilot."
Now I know we can say that won't happen but technically it can. Because the idea that the flying will be done by the most junior pilot is not correct. If you're senior and escaping a Monday-Thursday trip that's not going to be flown by the bottom of the list but rather someone no less than halfway up the list and probably higher than that. Given that's who is available over the same time frame.
And 80 points is a threshold, if you've flown 7 days and have 79 points then you still haven't hit 80 so you're still number one to fly and can get a 4 day. By the time you get back youre in bucket 2 but it took 11 days and 60 hours of flying to get there not six days and a SC.
Hence my concern about high bucket thresholds as it has the 50% and up flying in place of the top.
As to SC if you sat your allotment of six-ish that's not going to count more than a single 3 day. Now under the current system points for SC would help us all especially a commuting pilot get credit for working, but the new system undercuts it's value.
I think a 4-day and a SC should have you I bucket 2. Not 2 4-days or 3 3-days.
FTB
A glass half full is probably poisoned.
