Originally Posted by
FahQ2
Long call tends to go senior, however in the pecking order LC are called out first, so if your goal is not to fly this can work against you.
On the other hand, It’s great for guys with a super easy and plentiful option commute so they don’t have to sit in a crash pad.
I’ve seen LC go super senior and super junior, and depending on base size there may be only 1 or 2 LC lines available. Just starting out I would pretend it doesn’t even exist when making basing decisions.
I concur with all of this. I had LC for several months and came to realize that for me, it was a worse form of reserve lol. You will always be used and it will typically be the worst trips that open time couldn't get covered. Standard reserve also flys some bad trips, but they tend to be much shorter or one leg, DH and done type stuff where as LC usually gets a full 4 day assigned, most of it garbage. Now it is nice in terms of commuting and not using a crash pad, but if you live in base I would stay with the standard short call, you will get used much less often in my experience.