Originally Posted by
Superpilot92
it hasnt started but the system sucks and for us commuters, 3 sc's in a week and not consecutive is bs. they dont have any flying or adequate reserves so the same guys are getting sc over and over because they've only got 3 reserves available....
When SC assignments become predictable, it'll be nice. It absolutely is at the discretion of the scheduler because many a time I've had to call and say the 0500 I assigned was a bit off from the PM I requested. They change it. You know it's arbitrary when you see the first 10 get SC one clear day and then 3 the next day, sometimes it's just the first guy gets 0300 and works upwards from there and sometimes it's all over the place as in the PCS requests were honored.
It should not be done by hand and I'm sure schedulers would agree with us on that.