Originally Posted by
PassportPlump
It’s quite simple actually.
100 hours without verification in the previous 12 months. The current look back is posted to the minute on icrew.
If you have used 99:59 hours and call out sick for a 32 hour 5-day trip, you still don’t have to verify even though you’re at 131:59.
If following that sick call the next week you decide to call out sick you need to verify.
Have you volunteered to do some ALPA work? This would be a much easier read than the current Section 14, which runs 12 pages long. As much as I'd love for sick leave/use/verification to be as simple as you state, it isn't. Corner cases abound, and a pilot often needs to determine if he or she falls into one...or will at a future point when contemplating sick use in the future.
Case in point, I wouldn't be required to verify in your example because in the previous two years, I didn't use more than 50 hours. As you might imagine, I'm okay with the increased complexity that particular carve-out creates since it could completely absolve me of verifying some future sick event that uses all of my allocated sick leave.
Also, if that "next week" portion of your example causes a 33-hour sick event to fall off the front of a pilot's 12-bid-month lookback, the pilot still wouldn't need to verify. Your example also doesn't touch on the 160-hour threshold, previously verified events, partial trip sick-out, sick status declared after reserve trip assignment, (certain) bone breakage, etc...
We've got a pretty bright group of pilots...if some of them believe our sick policy to be overly complex, I don't begrudge them for it.