Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Our new reserve rules are a huge degradation in quality of life. I flew a spillover into the month of 1 day, a 2 day, a 3 day, sat 3 shortcalls for a total of 9 days of work for a whopping 76 raw. I am still number 1 for a 4 day so when I get a 4 day, I will have worked 13 days to get into bucket 2. Unfortunately for me the moth will be over.
Let me get this straight. You actually have flown 6 days this month and it's a huge degradation in your quality of life? Worst case you're going to fly 10 days and get paid for 70 hours.
I think the new system is a huge improvement over the old one as the schedulers can no longer use the "dart board" method of distribution. I just got a short call while 5 folks junior to me had 1 or 2 fewer short calls and got to sit long call? That's the same logic that schedulers used prior to this system. The new system isn't perfect, it is significantly better than the old one.
What 1400 of us wouldn't have given to have gotten paid 70 hours for 10 days of flying while we were furloughed post 911. Just my perspective, hope it gets better for you.