Originally Posted by
astaz
Reserves in Bases like SFB (more pilots, more planes than some of its Florida/East cost brothers), tend to get DH’d and sent around a lot more often then say, a reserve in IWA. Everything in Florida is close and those guys end up cleaning up IROP situations all the time.
A “block” is more than one. So 2 days on, 2 days off, is a block of days on followed by a block of days off, therefore you can self release. 1 on and 2 of does not meet the same criteria.
I’d take it even further and say we have large base reserve (+4 airplanes) and micro base reserve (less than 4 airplanes). In large bases you can be called for an assignment almost every single reserve day, in the smaller bases you might fly 2 times a month