Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Yes, you are doing it wrong.…
Not everyone who does the reserve GS game is doing rolling thunder. Being able to drop PB days and break your reserve blocks up into single day blocks is a huge gain in QOL and negates the need for rolling thunder. Not everyone is searching for 180 hours, I'm quite content with getting my ~100 hours while flying less than 5 days/month.
If the ALV is around 72-75 hours, you’d have to have 4-5 GS days on your X days to make around 100 hours. Then you’d have to get every on call day off. You are a master bidder! And then to have them short staffed on your X days, but then so over staffed they don’t have to use you on any of your on call days. And you can be selective on which GS to take and they assign most everything the night before!
My category isn’t remotely close to this gold mine.