Originally Posted by
MrBojangles
OK, but then don't whine when you get a call that disturbs you.. you guys don't seem to understand the issue. I could care less if you have a blanket GS in, but there needs to be a way to get through trip coverage faster since everyone does. if you're gonna complain about getting calls for trips you won't get the solution is to take your slip out or turn your phone off. what's so hard to understand?
The choices shouldn't be give up batch sizes or turn off your phone.
With regards to abandoning batch size limits to solve
their problem, that doesn't solve the problem of unwanted calls at 2am for trips you could never get. Then we just go back to ARCOS calling any and all pilots legal for a particular GS even if it's at 3am and the GS reports at 3pm. You could still have a pretty specific slip in that 25 other pilots senior to you have in as well and it'd call all 26 pilots...at 3am.
Chances are slim that all 25 ahead of you decline it but not impossible. So if we followed your advice, 'just turn off your phone!' then you miss that GS (based on specific parameters in this example, not a blanket slip) that you were willing to fly...because batch sizes are bad and handcuff the schedulers too much?
Without batch sizes, 9/10 times that's a nuisance call at 3am, but the other time you just missed a GS. And sorry, it's not acceptable to call
all the pilots legal for a GS at 3am just because they can and it saves the scheduler a little bit of work, hence why we have batch size limits
. I don't know if the details of the new batch sizes have been released yet but I'll be interested to see them.