I'm curious to see if the lowered captain minimums will make a difference in filling classes

Junior FOs you might make more money picking up FA open time at this point

I dunno, there are 41 captains sitting reserve next month in LAX. Seems like the ones I fly with are seeing minimum of 5 months before holding a line.

I don’t know how many we are losing each month, but it seems to me that reserve time may go down if anything, although block hours do go down in the fall. Hard for me to imagine a staffing crisis going toward the end of the year.

98 hours block with 13 days off. Bidding in 85(ish)% FO. On property less than 6 months.


One thing can be said for sure, if you want to play the fly as much as you want game. CPZ is a great option....in LaX

I'm glad to see that the crews are treating the "dirty sock smell" with as much urgency as it deserves. I would love to see a QRH procedure for it - I believe Spirit has one (I realize we already have smoke fume etc). Don't forget that ALPA has provided this guidance: https://www.alpa.org/resources/fume-exposure-guidance

Keep writing it up folks or risk endangering your long and short term health.

FA was showing me yesterday trips that were open for 400% pay.
I think some of them are at $20/hr, so even captains could make more money with FA open time lol.
Wow

I've been seeing this more and more in the logbooks. Keep it up. Irritated eyes and a scratchy sore throat are indicators that it's not just "coffee down the wrong drain".

http://avherald.com/files/spirit_a31...717_letter.pdf

There is some really good information in the link above. The link is a letter a Spirit FO wrote to ALPA who had experienced a particularly bad fume event(s). This is the letter that started the fume event program at Spirit. If you haven't read the letter yet it's worth the read. Most of it is there, I couldn't find the rest. If someone has the whole letter please post it. Every pilot should read this.

Thank you for sharing. I am passionate about this because I had a dirty sock smell flight and didn’t exactly know what it was (being it was the first time). Thank goodness there were no short term symptoms. Need to raise awareness. You know darn right that the next time this happens the mask is going on and we’re getting it on the ground.

I encountered the dirty sock smell recently, pretty strong on takeoff roll and the first 5 min of the climb then it went away.

FWIW, it was the first flight after oil was added to the engines so I’m not sure if some oil was spilled somewhere or if excess oil vented or if that was even related. Same plane had no smell on the next leg

I agree, we need a little more guidance for this scenario, I feel like we could be asked “why the heck did you do that?” No matter which course of action we take (or don’t take).

That letter is a must read

I too have encounter this smell a couple months back right on take off for about 5 mins or so. The smell never came back in the next leg...


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