Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Close-in WS are generally all I fly and I highly doubt I'll be getting 8-10 QS/month.
Hence why I say people who actually want to fly a WS, will have to call scheduling and tell them that they'll take the trip if they run it. Quite a few trips have gone IA with 5-10 hours to report, that I'd have gladly flown W if they had actually run the step. In my small category, even with the recent IA mess, there has rarely been more than 5-10 guys with a WS in for such trips. For us, it's OOBWSers that gum it all up.
Small cats, sure large cats will take too long and running WSs will not be done regardless of that call. At 12 minutes per, a cat will 50 could take 10 hours. 23M7 is usable at 8 hours prior so 18 hours out in this case would put the coverage in the long (23N) ladder so there really is no reason to run coverage if they have a good idea the trip won't be covered.