Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
When you category is below reserves required (has been the case for solid years at a run) then how do you use your payback days?
And if the category is above reserves required, how do you earn payback days?
It seems the Company's inability to plan has the corollary effect of making it impossible to avoid coverage awards.
Coverage awards go as high at 60% on the 73NB and have continued into the fall
Be senior and bid reserve June, July, and August with weekends off when coverage is poor in the summer. Bank the PB days. Bid a line with weekends off in September when coverage is good and you have PB days to drop trips during the week.
Worst case scenario is there are no GS's and you WS a full month of 70 hours and get paid around 150.
You can almost pull it off twice a year if you use the summer months to bank PB days and then use your PB days in the fall. Do it again banking PB days over the holidays and then use your PB days in the spring before summer flying picks back up.
I've seen guys that are senior in the category almost pull it off, but have yet to see someone get anywhere close to 200 hours. Doesn't work for me because I'm not that senior so I'm usually lucky to bank any PB days or be senior enough to get a line with weekends off.