Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
09-30-2012 | 10:50 PM
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This has been a day of misinformation, or I'm just tired from a long day of flying and am not reading these posts correctly. First the answers to pay that were making me really scratch my head until PG spoke up. Now this. What do you mean put in a request to be last in sequence for SC? If you're senior you're not supposed to be assigned SC before a jr pilot gets it (same number of days available, and in same SC bucket). You don't have to put in a request for this to be the case. The request is for what SC time you desire if you HAVE to do a SC, and a request to do SC before it's given out to those who aren't asking for it. Am I missing something?
Not that it matters for me. I always seem to be on SC -- regardless of seniority, buckets, days available -- and when I ask them about it, they always have a reason.
If I passed along misinformation, please forgive me.
10-01-2012 | 01:26 AM
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If a normal schedule would have seen "Captain Gomez" on the ballot, perhaps it would be a bit easier for "First Officer Gomez" to slide over a seat.
If any of the Captains running have status rep experience, I missed it. Not that anything turns on that dime. I expect whoever is elected will get the hang of it as well & fast as their predecessors have.
10-01-2012 | 03:02 AM
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This has always been my understanding. If someone knows this to be wrong, please correct me.
Your SC is 12 hours in duration. The end time is simply the end of your SC (3 hours notice to departure) period. While SC is not considered duty, it is also not rest. You must be able to look 24 hours back from your release and find 8 hours free from duty. Therefore, if you're assigned a trip off SC your release time for tomorrow should not exceed 16 hours from the beginning of your SC.
Example-SC starts @ 0600. At 1700 scheduling calls you for a 2030 departure. You're scheduled to arrive @ 2230. Look back 24 hours & you don't have your 8 hours(SC started @ 0600 so you only had 7.5 hours) You can't do the assignment.
Your SC is 12 hours in duration. The end time is simply the end of your SC (3 hours notice to departure) period. While SC is not considered duty, it is also not rest. You must be able to look 24 hours back from your release and find 8 hours free from duty. Therefore, if you're assigned a trip off SC your release time for tomorrow should not exceed 16 hours from the beginning of your SC.
Example-SC starts @ 0600. At 1700 scheduling calls you for a 2030 departure. You're scheduled to arrive @ 2230. Look back 24 hours & you don't have your 8 hours(SC started @ 0600 so you only had 7.5 hours) You can't do the assignment.
10-01-2012 | 03:09 AM
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10-01-2012 | 03:26 AM
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The orginal conversion date was Oct 1. Nominating meeting in Sep. totally legit. Could you make the claim that they moved the nominating meeting up? Sure, but that's and old tactic, again legal and within the authority of the LEC Chairman, and used to happen at fNWA as well. He could of run as a Capt. Rep instead. Same thing happens occasionally with elections on the MEC based on when new Reps will be in office and their perceived leanings. Unless there is something that specifies a election has to take place at a certain point in time it's not really gerrymandering.
Politics for sure, but is that a surprise?
10-01-2012 | 03:53 AM
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You can't have a member-in-good-standing rendered ineligible to run.
So if you had nominations one day, he's ineligible to run as a CA.
If you had the nominations another day, he's ineligible to run as FO.
But he was ALWAYS eligible to run.
That's why I say it's a fabricated issue.
10-01-2012 | 04:01 AM
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10-01-2012 | 04:10 AM
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So I'll just wait and run for FO when I can hold Captain in 8 years.
10-01-2012 | 05:02 AM
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The increase in ALV certainly isn't the only reason for stagnation, but it doesn't help us out either. Let's hope for some movement in the next year.
10-01-2012 | 05:58 AM
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There might have been real movement recently!
Did the Captain Fly 9 Years Past Retirement Age? | Flying Lessons - seattlepi.com
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Did the Captain Fly 9 Years Past Retirement Age? | Flying Lessons - seattlepi.com
Did airline captain Thomas Good fly right by the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots? The Federal Aviation Administration would like to know. To some of his fellow aviators at American Eagle's Executive Air Good is already a legend.
A spokesman for the FAA says it is investigating whether Good, until recently a captain with the regional carrier Executive Air, falsified his age on official documents.
Good failed to respond to messages sent to him through Facebook. Pilots who claim to have flown with him say the pilot, who is believed to be 69, was nabbed when authorities noticed a discrepancy on his documents that called his age into question. The mandatory retirement age for airline pilots is 65 after being raised from 60 to conform with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
If Capt. Good's former co-workers are correct, the regional pilot would have been 4 years past the mandatory retirement age when it was raised in 2007.
The Air Line Pilots Association which represents the American Airlines regional pilots and the Allied Pilots Association representing American Airlines, were outspoken opponents of giving older flyers another 5 years in the cockpit. Both labor organizations were concerned that raising the retirement age would slow promotions.
In a online chat forum for American Eagle pilots, several posters raised that point, noting that Good had prevented the promotion of pilots beneath him. Pilot pay as well as schedule and route choices are based on seniority. Others said that Good had become "famous" with his "colorful story" and that his antics were a "breath of fresh air."
A spokeswoman for American Airlines said "Thomas Good is no longer employed by Executive Airlines" and declined further comment saying it was a personnel matter.
A spokesman for the FAA says it is investigating whether Good, until recently a captain with the regional carrier Executive Air, falsified his age on official documents.
Good failed to respond to messages sent to him through Facebook. Pilots who claim to have flown with him say the pilot, who is believed to be 69, was nabbed when authorities noticed a discrepancy on his documents that called his age into question. The mandatory retirement age for airline pilots is 65 after being raised from 60 to conform with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
If Capt. Good's former co-workers are correct, the regional pilot would have been 4 years past the mandatory retirement age when it was raised in 2007.
The Air Line Pilots Association which represents the American Airlines regional pilots and the Allied Pilots Association representing American Airlines, were outspoken opponents of giving older flyers another 5 years in the cockpit. Both labor organizations were concerned that raising the retirement age would slow promotions.
In a online chat forum for American Eagle pilots, several posters raised that point, noting that Good had prevented the promotion of pilots beneath him. Pilot pay as well as schedule and route choices are based on seniority. Others said that Good had become "famous" with his "colorful story" and that his antics were a "breath of fresh air."
A spokeswoman for American Airlines said "Thomas Good is no longer employed by Executive Airlines" and declined further comment saying it was a personnel matter.
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