Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You should read your contract. There were 2 major offsets to ALV plus 15. One is a pilot definition of full has been reduced to his reserve pay hours not ALV. if they push him to just under ALV he is done for the month. The second and bigger change is all known absences are accounted for in determining when a reserve is full. Huge change from past contracts.
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Ok, so if they push the rsv to just under ALV-2, then they can use him all the way up to ALV+15.
That's good for an additional 4-day, when previously they would have been done.
That is a MAJOR give...
according to 23.2.d: A reserve pilot will not be required to remain on call after his accumulated credit equals or exceeds his reserve guarantee.
So first, if the ALV is 75 hours or greater you get 7 SCs. Wanted to mention that.
Second, the way I read that is if you have an ALV of 80 hours and you have accumulated credit equaling 79:59, you can go to ALV+15 which is 95 hours. Like 80 said, you have 4 days left and are ALV - 5 hours, you can be assigned a 20 hour trip and hit near 95 hours. Sure you were full at 80 hours but you didn't equal/exceed 80 before you got your next trip which can exceed 80 up to 95.
Right?
Kind of like the bucket system. At 80 points you are in bucket 1 and at 81 you are in bucket 2. So if you've got 80 points and are starting reserve you're up ahead of a pilot senior to you. Had you flown to 81 points you're in bucket 2 and that pilot senior to you is now ahead of you for any trips. Anyways, the guys who work weekends will get slaughtered.