Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
I did read a while back that you do not have the option to pickup a trip, so it truly is just 55 hours and go away for a month. great time for a vacation.
I got a couple of those in 2002. Seems like a good way to handle temporary overstaffing in a category -- the recipient gets a month of "practice retirement" and some junior pilot gets a regular line that he wouldn't otherwise have obtained. When we had a DB pension, some guys wouldn't bid an SIL because it could affect their Final Average Earnings, but that may no longer be a factor.