Originally Posted by
Southerner
1. The pilots in MCO love to get their trips bought.
2. The instructors don't get paid extra for flying those trips. It's included in their work days.
3. Some instructors fly trips in JFK/BOS, and many turns in MCO are actually JFK/BOS pairings.
4. Instructors cannot pick up straight open time. The only way instructors get paid captain pay is to fly RSA or VDA.
The instructor gig is completely different than being a line pilot. Both have their advantages/disadvantages.
You guys are the biggest RSA VDA "helpers" in the entire system.
You should not be allowed do those. If you want to be an instructor stay in the school house and pick up overtime in there. MCO would probably have to grow by 10% if instructors weren't able to pick up VDA and RSA.
Now don't get me wrong I'm a huge proponent of having line pilots as instructors but it needs to be something like 2 months in the school house and 1 month back on the line in the base and seat you actually hold.
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