Reserve for Dummies
10-13-2021 | 10:13 AM
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Mushy GT cruisers like the Corvette are good at handling fragile cargo like eggs. Bring them home in a Miata with its track bred race car suspension and they're little more than egg beaters by that point.
10-13-2021 | 11:03 AM
#72
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Speaking of reserve, when in a properly staffed category, rolling x days to align days of availability with the largest RAW bucket reduces your chances of being called.
10-13-2021 | 03:40 PM
#73
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Correct. As it currently stands there is no real benefit to volunteering for more than 2 SC periods (other than 1 hour towards your reserve guarantee for each period). Now in the next contract it sounds like there will be 1 hour paid on top of guarantee for every SC. That might incentivise more local people to volunteer for it while commuters would potentially get fewer of them assigned.
10-13-2021 | 04:17 PM
#74
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All was an overstatement. True. But you can get your first 2 out of the way on your own terms
10-13-2021 | 04:57 PM
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If you eliminate SC balancing when using a YS, why would you need to swap? If you aren't senior enough to hold it, you don't get it.
10-13-2021 | 05:38 PM
#76
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Doubt that would work. SC's are usually assigned in the afternoon the day before. Some shifts start as early as 3 or 4 AM, necessitating putting the pilot into rest at least 10 hours prior so they're legal for the SC period. There's also the variables of how many days each pilot has available. Tring to throw in some sort of swap system on top of all that doesn't seem feasible. As someone else said if your volunteering for SC just put in the restrictions you want and you'll either get what you want, not get SC, or if you were due for SC anyways scheduling will still give it to you, just maybe outside the parameters you wanted.
10-16-2021 | 01:55 PM
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Doubt that would work. SC's are usually assigned in the afternoon the day before. Some shifts start as early as 3 or 4 AM, necessitating putting the pilot into rest at least 10 hours prior so they're legal for the SC period. There's also the variables of how many days each pilot has available. Tring to throw in some sort of swap system on top of all that doesn't seem feasible. As someone else said if your volunteering for SC just put in the restrictions you want and you'll either get what you want, not get SC, or if you were due for SC anyways scheduling will still give it to you, just maybe outside the parameters you wanted.
10-16-2021 | 02:07 PM
#79
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That is generally the best way to do it, until scheduling tags you with a trip on your first SC 🤦
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