Originally Posted by
Timbo
The copilots I fly with are quite proud of it, that's the only way I found out about it!
But once word got around about this 'technique', it became more of a High Time Game. "Wow, did you hear about Joe? He scored a 120hr. line!"
BUT...since the last two bids have both had a lot of displacements out of my category, I think guys are starting to see what the net effect is when half the category is flying WAY above ALV+15 and the reserves aren't flying at all.
I wonder what the displaced co-pilots think of trip parking now?
Classic "Tragedy of the Commons" scenario.
For anyone not familiar (From Wiki):
The
tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited
resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen. This dilemma was described in an influential article titled "The Tragedy of the Commons", written by ecologist
Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal
Science in 1968.
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Scoop