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sailingfun 07-02-2012 04:22 AM


Originally Posted by Jesse (Post 1223014)
Not too many posts past this one, and I don't know the answer but I can use it to segue to a another question about this topic:

Was on SC starting at 0900. Got a trip with an 1830 sign-in. A maintenance delay resulted in the flight finally going out at 2048 (Not that it mattered, but I had been at the airport since 0745 that morning due to all the other flights for the day being over-booked).

The rotation showed an ACTUAL ON DUTY of 5:59 and a MAX DUTY of 10:15 (I ended up with a duty day of 14:59 that day). I was concerned if there was anything other than 16 hrs (15:30 before push, I believe) to be concerned with so I called scheduling and they said no flags were showing up and I was good to do the trip. I guess I was, but this post made me think of it again. Does the MAX DUTY DAY (even going past 2 hrs) not apply to Reserves?

You are confusing Whitlow with the contract. Your duty day contractually always starts at the report of your trip. Whitlow is a add on rule as a result of the American Accident in Little Rock. It requires that in any 24 hour period you can look back and find 8 hours of rest from any company requirements including answering the phone on reserve. That limits reserve to 16 hours max as a practical matter. Whitlow does not apply to international.

80ktsClamp 07-02-2012 04:30 AM


Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 1223113)
You have training?

Yep! That's why. They can fix the glitch then. :)

forgot to bid 07-02-2012 04:30 AM


Originally Posted by Elvis90 (Post 1223128)
I live in West Texas and have my house for sale. I still plan to move to MSP. Is commuting a choice for me? House has been on the market 2 years well below appraised value.

Yes commuting is still a choice because if you just had bought your house in MSP before you got hired then you wouldn't have had this problem. Which is true for anyone contemplating interviewing with Delta, you need to purchase your house now in the base you hope to get.

Although, I was told the other day living in base is a choice or something because if you get MD'd off your equipment to a smaller paying one then that's your fault for not commuting to a higher paying one. So commuting or not commuting is a choice and will be used against you in whatever way is necessary to the it's all your fault narrative.

So just remember, going to work is a choice. You choose to do it. And everything that happens after that is all your fault.

:o

acl65pilot 07-02-2012 05:28 AM


Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1223145)
Yep! That's why. They can fix the glitch then. :)

No, its correct. Under the new scheduling rules your projection or guarantee is reduced by vacation training etc. What you see is your guarantee there minus those two reserve days that you will be in training; pro ratta. They are correct.

Flamer 07-02-2012 05:31 AM


Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1223142)
You are confusing Whitlow with the contract. Your duty day contractually always starts at the report of your trip. Whitlow is a add on rule as a result of the American Accident in Little Rock. It requires that in any 24 hour period you can look back and find 8 hours of rest from any company requirements including answering the phone on reserve. That limits reserve to 16 hours max as a practical matter. Whitlow does not apply to international.

True. And from what I have seen, the computers do not have whitlow programming for reserves. You are on your own to keep yourself out of trouble. Same thing has happened to me more than once.

PilotFrog 07-02-2012 05:38 AM

Being the second day under this contract, why is the old contract still on the DELTAnet homepage?

Boomer 07-02-2012 05:53 AM


Originally Posted by RunFast (Post 1223004)
I don't get it....

Well, if I had a kid that the Huskies ground into the dirt and he refused to ever stand up again, the other kids would wind up calling him Wheels. Or Ricky Bobby.

Here, this may help...

http://www.retrojunk.com/content/article/6843/index/

I'm the one with the "Number 7" shirt. Wheels is to my left.

Waves 07-02-2012 06:31 AM


Originally Posted by RunFast (Post 1223004)
I don't get it....

I seriously hope that is a nick name. Wheels? :eek:

acl65pilot 07-02-2012 06:34 AM


Originally Posted by Flamer (Post 1223168)
True. And from what I have seen, the computers do not have whitlow programming for reserves. You are on your own to keep yourself out of trouble. Same thing has happened to me more than once.


Not from my experience. They computer FAR duty time. If you are assigned SC and subsequently assigned a trip, when you go sign in for the rotation it will show your FAR duty time on the bottom. DBMS will not compute duty time from the start of SC for a Flag operated trip, and only for one under domestic rules. The computer does keep track of it.

Now if they put it on your sked wrong, or build the rotation incorrectly, that is a different story. All things being correct, DBMS protects for whitlow, which btw should be a non event with the new ft/dt rigs in late 2013.

Whitlow does not apply for the PWA duty day limitations, only for total duty. Contractually SC without assignment is not duty and therefore does not apply towards the act/max duty day you see on a rotation. That limitation is from report. Whitlow works outside of that. DBMS will look at both. I have been assigned may trips domestically on SC that were going to be close. Everyone of them that ran in to an issue was being watched by scheduling and I was removed when it looked like we could not takeoff without there being a whitlow violation.

Waves 07-02-2012 06:37 AM


Originally Posted by PilotFrog (Post 1223175)
Being the second day under this contract, why is the old contract still on the DELTAnet homepage?

Probably because not all of the new contract items are applicable yet.


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