no extra at Fed Ex!
08-06-2006 | 07:14 AM
#41
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Originally Posted by fecav8r
OK let me get this straight. I bid a line with 13 days off and it pays just over avg BLG. I am supposed to drop trips on this line to get back to min days off? What happened to just flying 100%?
08-06-2006 | 08:42 AM
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From: FredEx Captain-Retired
Originally Posted by eatme
Captain-Drew....your monniker truly reflects the self righteous jerk you were while you were on the property and the sad sack loser you are afterwards..get a life for crying out loud...btw, how many Gs did you pull flying C9s?
The name was picked as a result of watching one of the funniest movies I ever saw. . . the main character, "Captain Ron" (Mr. Goldie Hawn) was a bozo. . so I thought it would be self-deprecating, humorous and would remind folks of a few laughs they might have had. If you perceive it otherwise. . THAT is YOUR personal problem.
The only time we ever pulled Gs in a C-9 was when the chief said "Oh my God, I forgot the coffee" and we did an immediate 180 and taxied back to the line. The "Gs" I was referring to were in the F-4, A-4. . and various and sundry of the other 30+ types I had the pleasure to have operated, before I got old.
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08-06-2006 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by fecav8r
OK let me get this straight. I bid a line with 13 days off and it pays just over avg BLG. I am supposed to drop trips on this line to get back to min days off? What happened to just flying 100%?
Don't all awarded lines, excluding c/o, by default protect min days off? If you have c/o and protect min days off, THEN you have to drop a trip(s). Protecting c/o is kind of like flying extra at straight pay, isn't it? 
I think you really meant self-deprecating?!
08-06-2006 | 09:29 AM
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From: FredEx Captain-Retired
Originally Posted by eatme
89 more posts and I'll be super qualified like yourself ..all knowing one, 1 posts or a thousand it makes no difference; since you fly 757s you probably didnt know the Capt unless that is you also had wings of gold ..yawn... btw I remember the capt didnt quite retire as a capt unless of course your talking about military service..
I would be willing to bet your next month's pay check that you are either a lying MF, or you don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you should fact check with someone who knows. . BEFORE putting lying, defamatory slander out there?
08-06-2006 | 09:30 AM
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From: MD11FO
Originally Posted by FDXFLYR
I think a better way to judge extra work is whether or not a pilot is protecting min days off. Doing this circumvents the issues raised above about getting drafted to makeup time lost, etc. The pilots who have less than min days off a month are the real problem children.
My previous airline required that no pilot could fly extra trips that would cause them to have less than 7 calendar days off a month. This is a safety / fatigue issue as well as a staffing one. Fedex with its sterling safety record would be well advised to make that a contract provision. Better yet make it 13 days. I know, I know, I'm an optimist.
Two years is too long
08-06-2006 | 10:20 AM
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From: MD11 F/O
Carryover
Originally Posted by MD11Fr8Dog
Protecting c/o is kind of like flying extra at straight pay, isn't it?
Fr8Dog, Your pet peeve seems to be guys selling back vacation and mine is carryover. I've got a great sticker idea for you. "TAKE A STAND, TAKE YOUR VACATION".
08-06-2006 | 10:23 AM
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Captain-Dew-you remind me of that TopGun parody that Val Kilmer did on Saturday Night Live.. IceMan the later years...he too was self-deprecating
http://www.usafitz.com/SupportingPages/iceman.htm
http://www.usafitz.com/SupportingPages/iceman.htm
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