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Old 04-04-2013, 07:00 AM
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Do we have a designated group of charter pilots? Every time I try to trade for one of these, I'm almost always earlier time stamped by the same group of guys who are flying with the same group of F/O's.
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You would think so wouldn't you.
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Seems to be a common beef that not too many people above the line pilot really care about.
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Do we have a designated group of charter pilots? Every time I try to trade for one of these, I'm almost always earlier time stamped by the same group of guys who are flying with the same group of F/O's.
What was the Trip # and date?
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Old 04-04-2013, 11:50 AM
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Do we have a designated group of charter pilots? Every time I try to trade for one of these, I'm almost always earlier time stamped by the same group of guys who are flying with the same group of F/O's.
No just a group of guys who use OTP to get the trip and then when it's nice and quiet at CRS they call, drop the trip and immediately pick it back up using their regular make-up bank. The OTP hours go back into their bank and the process starts over again. Most people don't realize it can be done so the same group of guys just get the trips over and over and..... They have an endless pot of OTP hours because right or wrong I think the drop dead date on using the OTP gets reset everytime they do it. Nice huh?
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I should know this, but what is OTP? Open time priority?
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Old 04-04-2013, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ol'tigerguy View Post
Do we have a designated group of charter pilots? Every time I try to trade for one of these, I'm almost always earlier time stamped by the same group of guys who are flying with the same group of F/O's.
No just a group of guys who use OTP to get the trip and then when it's nice and quiet at CRS they call, drop the trip and immediately pick it back up using their regular make-up bank. The OTP hours go back into their bank and the process starts over again. Most people don't realize it can be done so the same group of guys just get the trips over and over and..... They have an endless pot of OTP hours because right or wrong I think the drop dead date on using the OTP gets reset everytime they do it. Nice huh?
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Old 04-04-2013, 12:16 PM
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Old 04-04-2013, 12:38 PM
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No just a group of guys who use OTP to get the trip and then when it's nice and quiet at CRS they call, drop the trip and immediately pick it back up using their regular make-up bank. The OTP hours go back into their bank and the process starts over again. Most people don't realize it can be done so the same group of guys just get the trips over and over and..... They have an endless pot of OTP hours because right or wrong I think the drop dead date on using the OTP gets reset everytime they do it. Nice huh?
I don't believe the drop date gets reset.
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