Originally Posted by GogglesPisano

I'm thankful SC's are only 6 hours now -- when they could be 12. Someone down there is playing nice.

Originally Posted by DWC CAP10 USAF

SC's that start at 2359 are still 9 hours......

Originally Posted by dmhpilot

Only because it is required to be “next day” and anything assigned for 0000 or later is “second day”

Originally Posted by tennisguru

You get a 1000 SC on your first day of LC. If that's a 1000-2200 SC, then they can't use you until 1400 the second day (18 hours after 2200). So day 2 you get 1400-0200 SC. Now on day 3 you can't get SC until 2000, and so on. A 6 hour SC period allows them to keep assigning the same SC start time multiple days in a row and they don't "lose" a day or more of availbility as your 18 hour leash keeps moving backwards.

But also another reason they went from 12, then to 9, and now to 6 (other than the 2359 SC period which I think is still 8-9 hours), is that they found that the futher into a long SC period you got the less usable you were due to the RAP+FDP limit. I would assume that fatigue calls were also higher when they assigned a report at the tail end of a long SC period that went close to the max. Also remember that the RAP+FDP limit is a hard limit and cannot be exceeded unless you're already in the air on your last leg.

At this point the main reason for SC isn't as much for the "hey here's a trip reporting right now when can you get here" but more for stuff that pops up 10-18 hours from reoprt that can't be covered by a LC pilot. Over the last year only 1 of my SC rotation assignments wasn't on my schedule late the night before. I've had just one close-in assignment. So scheduing doesn't need a SC sitting available for 9+ hours as long as they can layer in several 6 hour windows. Those people have greater usability and scheduling can keep rolling their SC period day to day until a rotation gets assigned.

Originally Posted by iLikeMoose

As a serial reservist who lives in base, I would love to be able to do nothing but SC. Getting assigned the OT leftovers on LC sucks, I live for broken up trips on short call, ha. But of course that would suck for commuters, so it would just be nice as an option.

Originally Posted by Verdell

Same. The PWA provides for more than 6 SC's, they just have to be awarded and not assigned.

The company is not awarding more than 6 SC's. While I certainly don't want to increase the assignable number of SC's, I wouldn't mind language that forces the company to honor YS awards for more than 6 SC (and the extra pay that results from them.) Then again, if such a thing existed, there would probably have to be a leveling mechanism to keep senior from hogging all the premium pay from >6 SC's.

Originally Posted by HockeyGuy

Is there a grievance related to this? I thought ALPA did not agree that short calls beyond 6 were at the company's discretion.

Originally Posted by GogglesPisano

This is perfect. Thank you.

Originally Posted by Verdell

Same. The PWA provides for more than 6 SC's, they just have to be awarded and not assigned.

The company is not awarding more than 6 SC's. While I certainly don't want to increase the assignable number of SC's, I wouldn't mind language that forces the company to honor YS awards for more than 6 SC (and the extra pay that results from them.) Then again, if such a thing existed, there would probably have to be a leveling mechanism to keep senior from hogging all the premium pay from >6 SC's.