Originally Posted by
Merlyn
That comment is both juvenile and ignorant. I am unhappy with the open time process in FLL and it has nothing do with crediting 100 plus hours a month.
Until about a year ago, I could take my line and use open time to trip trade. The result would be increasing my line value from 75 hours or so to 82 or so. At the same time increasing my days off from 13 or 14 to 15 or 16.
My experience now is that my initial open time bids are denied , picked up by senior captains. Then comes daily open time. As fast as my stubby fingers type, I get denied again and again as I see my requests go from "Pending" to "Denied" sometimes hours later.
During the month I get Flica alerts. No matter how fast I get to Flica the trip is gone when I get there. I don't know why.
To recap, open time used to be a way to improve my life by adjusting my schedule to accommodate life events, to increase my line efficiency by giving me a few more hours and letting me stay home a day or too more a month. Now that system is broken. I don't have a solution but remarks like yours insulting fellow pilots and ignoring the problem doesn't help either.
If DOT is available to everyone and anyone, what are you doing wrong? Perhaps you need to upgrade your flip phone to a modern smartphone? Are you one of those Captains that like to show off your Captain Kirk phone like communicator?
Maybe you need to go on a diet to lose some of those chubby fingers? How about paying a little more to upgrade your dial up internet at home to something more 21st Century to what we call 'high speed internet'?
How about a new computer running something from this decade and not your Windows 95 that still works?
My point is DOT is on an even field and everyone is on the same level. I've talked to other Captains that invested in certain things to give themselves a fighting change. Maybe you need to talk to them as well. (Easy to find them, they are usually younger than 50)