Not a contract expert but an immediate report they are still above everything else? I thought there was a carve out.

 

The company may choose to invoke 23M7 but they are always bound by the coverage ladder. If there is a pilot with a valid white slip in and they skip steps of coverage (at any time) to get the rotation crewed, the white slip pilot would be the M7.

 

No. At least, no way that I’m aware of. Because the “all flying days for award” isn’t the start date, it’s all inclusive days of the trip. So to capture the 5th day of a a 5-day, 4 of the 5 possible days will not be a proffer for a 1-day, and 3 of the days won’t be a proffer for a 2-day, and so on.

For example, today is the 12th, let’s say you put in for a Min1 Max5 with inclusive dates of 12-18th (a 5-day trip starting on the 14th is a proffer after the 2000 PCS run on the 11th, so long as you do NOT check the “award on 0700 PCS run). A 5-day leaving in the 14th ends on the 18th. A 1-day trip starting on the 15th, 16th, 17th, or 18th will simply be awarded as a WS, and you can’t turn it down…

So to prevent this, I put in WS preference 11 as a 1-day min and max, inclusive of dates today through 2 days later(the 14th), then preference 12 as a 2-day min a max, inclusive of dates today through 3 days later(the 15th - adding another day to capture the 2nd of the 2 days), then preference 13 as…. They would all be proffers through ARCOS, and I can turn them all down by not responding. Helps me keep them straight, and leaves room to slide in a specific slip as preference 1 or 9 if I see something I actually want.

I wish there was a check box for “proffered trips only”, then you could do as you wrote above. But there isn’t, so you have to go through the hoops each day, to roll all the dates forward. It’s a mild pain, but once you get it, it’s pretty quick to update each day.

Of course, that’s just for lineholders (in a Reserve thread no less). Hope that helps.

 

um, yeah, that way you are full before your work days on the holiday and now they can’t touch you….

 

And in non holiday months, say you really need a weekend off at the end of the month that you got coveraged into.

 

What does the hive mind think about individuals who are GS'ing rotations with <18 hrs to report and insufficient SC coverage? Your GS stole my GSWC/IA/23m7.
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I thought there was some new change as it relates to reserves swapping an X-day into the FRMS SC reserve day which was assigned prior to rest?

 

My plan would be to undo (via icrew or phone call) the Non-contactable status right before short call begins so I dont have to worry about a sneak trip being put on there. I would just monitor and wait for the "2 hour" call out once my SC starts.

Sceanrio I have in my head:

Assigned short call a day prior for 1400 the next day, immediately call in Non contactable after assignment.
Next day at 1355 i check schedule/call scheduling and say I do not need uncontactable status anymore.

I essentially take myself off the list of any open trips they have from 1400-1600. Might not be worth all the effort for a small percentage of trips but just want to make sure i understand the strategy.


And to come off the NC status all you must do is check your schedule iCrew? You dont have to speak with scheduling?

Thanks

 

Yeah. Good technique, that makes sense. Thanks.

 

Yes I do it all the time to force a day off I need. For example.. let's say I have 5 days of LC coming up; I can YS 3 days before or three days before my 5 days on LC, which would force a 30/168 at some point while I was to be on call.