Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
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Do away with the use it or lose it plan, let us bank hours that we don't use, let us sell back a certain portion above a threshold level once per year at 50%, and stop hassling us with verification notes.
The key to all of your ideas at the end is how many hours we would accrue, and at what interval?
Unless it's 240/year, I'm not really interested. I use sick when I'm sick (3-4 times per year) and would be taking a serious chunk out of my bank, if we were under such a system. In fact, if we only got 5 or 6 hours/month I would pretty much break even every year - and certainly wouldn't be building up a huge pile of hours for a catastrophic event like Timbo worries about.
I much prefer our current system, which coupled with DPMA and LTD provides a really nice backstop for that catastrophic event. Another plus is roughly 99% of our pilots are currently protected every year by those 3 components. If we were to go to a bank, after a couple of years, a much greater % of us will not have the same protection as we regularly use some or all of the bank.
Like I said, it's all about how many hours are going in, but I'm of the opinion that our sick program ain't broke, so let's not fix it.