Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
I dont make the FAR 117 rules...so the military pilot that flies 100 hours on a 3 week deployment can waltz in and fly 100 at delta....YEA....why...
Cause them's the rules....guy works his outside bidness 14 hrs a day for 5 days and then comes to work? Same/same. Careful what we wish for....might be that commuters have to start counting their commute as block hours....OUCH!
Do we want all DGS instructors? In previous contract negotiations we considered that a give due to all the jobs that cost by returning instructors to the line
....so question...it has been stated that instructor GS go just ahead of inverse assignments....if true.....I'll draw my conclusion....you can draw yours....for me....the insignificant numbers of jobs created is just that...insignificant. I think it's better to increase all current pilots pay/working conditions before weighing in on creating jobs....if the company needs more pilots they will either RR, give out GS, inverse assign or ????? We still haven't ascertained whether what went on was legal/illegal
Inverse assignment means nobody wanted to do it and now is being forced to (money be damned) ...if you have to miss a life event and they ACARS you your inverse assignment you would be glad if an instructor picked it up and someone else would be ****ed that they didnt get a GSWC....such is life
I have to be honest, that post is so rambling and discombobulated that I am not really sure what you're trying to say.
I THINK you are trying to say that they should be able to consider ground duty as rest. Unfortunately, while the other examples ARE allowed per FARs, ground duty for the company is SPECIFICALLY not allowed to be considered rest. There is no "careful what you wish for here." It's what the FARs say and it's to prevent the company from assigning you ground duty during your mandatory rest times. This does mean it still does not count as a rest period even for a GS or IA.
In this case, if the pilot was already on a ground duty period and then changed it to be a GS they committed a serious FAR violation. If the ground duty period was in the future and they changed it to not interfere, it may be a contractual violation but does not violate any FARs.