Look. This has been said several times. The contract in section 9 outlines sims in the 2400-0200 time area(sim starting at 2200). It’s legal and the building is running at full capacity. The random exception are these blocked periods called “slide periods.” There is no one in the building authorized from the lower ranks to change or use these periods without authorization from very high up.

As an example, a 10 am blocked sim was vacant. Several instructors wanted to jump in at 10:30 to use the sim for 15 minutes to update landing currency. A senior training manager was told no.

The association is in the process of trying to remedy these blocked periods. Let’s be clear there are probably not many of these but the fact that one period in the light of day is blocked in the pre-build is unacceptable. In the mean time let the union work through the process of resolving this.

At the end of day the building is running at capacity. The 2200-0200 will be the norm for the next several months. And we are training off site in fairly large amounts.