Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
It's amazing how senior reserve is going in March on ATL88B. I counted almost 50 pilots voluntarily bidding reserve while there's only about 20 on reserve involuntarily.
They realize they don't have to work. No longer sitting voluntary short call trying to pick up a WS to get above 70 hours. Instead one or two SC's and never working the rest of the month because someone else will do it.
I'll use myself as an example. A buddy of mine was typically about 4 to 6 people ahead of me with near identical days of reserve. He now sits in bucket 2 but got there with a 97 raw score. I have 0 hours. So he flew for me. I don't like that system and I'm benefiting from it.
One thing I didn't realize was an 80 raw score is not bucket 2, it's bucket 1 still. So you can hit 80 and be up for a 4 day before someone with 0 hours flies.