Originally Posted by
Jetjok
Normy,
Did you have the NNLC on a trip that you were assigned while on reserve? Sometimes someone will call in sick for a trip, knowing full well, that they were going to get a line check. The line check guy will usually stay on that trip and if you got it on reserve (or picked it up in open time), you might have inherited the line check. I got one that way a few years ago, while doing a HKG to SFS leg. Or maybe it's just you.
May not have been someone calling in sick either. I was scheduled for a regulatory line check on the second day of an R-block. Called to ask if I was released until then, and scheds said "No, we could still use you on day 1." Sure enough, they got greedy, assigned me a trip on day 1 that included deicing, and therefore an extra half hour of block time. Made me illegal for the line check (8 in 24), so they bumped me off that. Of course, they had already bumped the original Capt, and went though 2 more Capts to finally fill the trip. Also, the LCA was still on the trip, so I imagine that someone got a no-notice out of the deal. I wonder how much it actually cost to operate that trip?
This is one of the problems with the "optimizer/sodomizer" - no room for friction... and there's a LOT of friction in the system. Eventually they (the bean counters) will figure out that "optimization" can wind up costing a lot more than allowing the slack. Sometimes they're not real quick on the uptake and need to have things pointed out to them. (In language they understand. $o to $peak.)