Originally Posted by
ERJF15
I get what he's trying to say.
When he's working his hard lines for the week, he should be treated like a line holder by C/S.
Only time your not a line holder in the eyes of the contract is the days your assigned RSV. Otherwise for pay, trip trades, OT pickup, ETC your a line holder. You can HT and pickup OT on your days off.
For TTOT purposes your a line holder, except the 24 hour TTOT window since you do not have a sched yet. However you can play in the 48 hour window and then normal TTOT all month. You just have to call sched after EVERY TT and ask them to restore your DFPs. Otherwise after one or two trades (that shift your days working/off around) you will fall from 11 to 8 DFPs in the computer.
Again with a comp line using TTOT, you can delete DFPs when you TT but you can not ADD them back.
Also to my knowledge, you have no obligation to call crew sched for release during the month, EXCEPT the days you have RSV. Typically that is between 2 and 4 days, and you can request to move them around via RF100 SWAP (I think thats the rf code).
You are also line guarantee protected like a line holder, including after trades. Each day your on RSV is worth 3.54HR (I THINK, it could be 3.45), toward the line value. So if they build you a 77 hour line with 12 days not flying, they will add 1 rsv day. Your protected value is 80.54. If you trade one trip worth 8 hours to a trip worth 10 hours, your pay protected for 82.54 hours. If you drop a 2 hour day trip, you gain a free day off and are pay protected for 80.54 hours.
I forget what happens if they use you on a RSV day. I THINK if you fly less then 3.54 hours nothing happens, but if you fly more you get the difference. However it might all play into a bigger picture of everything all month long. What I do is just ignore that part, and try to trip trade and swap the RSV day so that either a ton of people are on RSV that day, OR I am 29 hours of flying in 7 days during the RSV days, so they wont use me.
A COMP line can be a good money maker without working. It depends what they give you, and how you can trade it all around. I personally like getting the RSV days, as you will most likely be near the top of the RSV list those days. Its an easy way to jack up your line guarantee value without affecting your legality for 30/7 and 100hr/month. You can then TT what they give you for as high time trips as possible and really sky rocket the pay. I traded some 6 hour 2 days for 18 hour 3 days, and dropped a 4 hour 2day. Stuff like that.
Good luck Sam.