Originally Posted by
sweephisleg
Silver slips were the biggest concession the pilot group made on this last contract. GS on RES is absolutely massive with regards to premium time generation. A 3-day GS on RES wipes out 5 days of RES availability, many times on more critical days such as weekends and holidays, compounding the amount of premium time being handed out. If a RES has any availability left, the company is forced to break up efficient 4-day bid packet trips as for example, into a 2-day and 3-day high credit trips, further compounding premium time flying. I easily would vote for #4.
If not, #2 or #3 as its ridiculous that so few benefit to the detriment of the rest of the pilot group.
First off, I vote for option #2.
Secondly, SS does allow more premium pay options. Like happened this month in my category, we had pilots all the way to 16xxx get a SS. That person would never have gotten GS#2 but now between GS#1 and a SS, this person has gotten TWO premium pay rotations. That's a good thing.
As someone who has rolled thunder before, RES GS are great, no argument. But I still flew close to the same amount of block hours for that month that I would have if I had not done a single GS. I just did it for twice the pay. RES GS are not some holy grail that allows everyone to fly GS as well. A REG GS can only do so much, still gotta fly those other single pay trips as well.
Originally Posted by
sweephisleg
Finally, there are more than enough military bros abusing the system that I propose, just like sick time and GS slips, that if only through the use of MLOA you become legal for a SS, you go to the bottom of the SS list. If your use of MLOA has no bearing on whether you could have been awarded the silver slip, you keep your priority. Exactly the same as sick and green slip. Sick and GS was put in to prevent abuse, and this would be exactly the same. They want to get a good deal at the expense of the company? Have at it. But if they want to do it at the expense of the rest of the pilot group, I have a serious problem with that. I'd love to hear the mental gymnastics on how this would be unfair.
Absolutely not. Taskings pop up, people do have an obligation to their reserve or guard unit that didn't exist two days ago. One of my units did a lot of DSCA (Defense Support of Civil Authorities) ie disaster relief. So the idea of being punished by for having to go help with a flood or hurricane is ludicrous.
So no, absolutely no.