Originally Posted by
TED74
Help me understand the difference in category size as it affects batch size preferences.
If I’m in a category with 400 pilots and there are 3 trips to cover, a batch size of 15 means I have a one in 5 chance of being the selected pilot for a green slip.
If I’m in a category of 100 pilots there and there are 3 trips to cover, a batch size of 15 means I have a one in 5 chance of being the selected pilot for a green slip.
Am I to understand that larger category pilots want more headfakes with the tradeoff that they get through the coverage process faster? Why isn’t anyone discouraged by the total response window going to 25 minutes from the historic 10? I’d rather shorten that myself than open myself to more headfakes.
Math is the issue..it's not your chances of the trip, it's the time it takes to get down the list. Once people that actually want to fly the trips get GS1, as the month goes on those people just fishing for 23M7 and batch violation money go to the top of the ARCOS list since they haven't take a GS yet. So as the month goes on it takes longer and longer to find a person that will actually fly the trip. I've been past 200 before on the callout list. It's impossible if you have a trip signing in lets say in 5 hours with a batch size of 5 to get through all that (that would get them to 100 on the list). And that's just GS. That doesn't account for WS and OOBWS.