Flip through the Awards and note how many pilots are junior/senior to you each day (within your days of availability grouping).

If you don't want to fly, move your X days around so you are on RSV on days with as many pilots junior to you within your days of availability groups - this is going on the assumption that guys won't also move their x days, which of course happens in the real world. Once the month starts, keep an eye out up to 7 days ahead to see where you fall in the RUO wrt to Days of Availability - again move X days as desired.

If you do want to fly it's simple:
1. Do the opposite of the above

OR

2. Be on RSV on the weekends

Most of this is out the window after Memorial Day anyways, as I have a feeling all RSV's are going to be flying most of their on call days. Playing the X-day move game though works well in slow months, if you have a little bit of seniority and your category is not staffed tightly.

 

By the way, unless you're senior AND your category is waaay fat-staffed, Short Call assignments can blow away your best laid plans anyways.

Have fun

 

The Office finale tonight preceded by an hour long highlights show. should be good for a "That's what she said" drinking game.

 

If you want some time off...

1. Get your Short Calls early in the month. You may get a trip or two and move your RAW score into Bucket 2. If you don't get a few short calls out of the way early, you may find yourself in bucket 2 or 3 and still on short call.

2. Put your on call days early in the month. If you start reserve days early in the month, you have an earlier start on moving into Bucket 2. If you start late in the month, some pilots junior to you will already be in the second bucket.

3. Finish your on call days on Friday. This typically puts you in the largest Days of Availability grouping. Most pilots bid for weekends off. Sat and Sun are typically the lowest coverage days with M-F overstaffed. Friday is the most common end day, so more pilots are in your Days of Availability grouping.

4. All bets are off if the ALV is high and reserves aren't overstaffed. Low ALV results in line holders taking ALL of the open time that would normally go to long call reserves. This is especially the case with weekday trips, which further supports the previous point. With high ALV, line holders can't or won't take white slips, so long call reserves get used.

 

What's the difference between HR and pro standards? Is there some more expected protection from pro stans vs HR? How is pro stans any more or less "vengeful?"

 

Hmm... I hope this is a joke.

 

Never having dealt with either group, I believe Pro-Stans is a union group that tries to keep matters out of the Company's hands, where there might be disciplinary action, by talking to the pilot in question and trying to resolve the matter before it goes to HR/Chief Pilot etc.

Denny

 

No I'm not offended by that, it's not personally offensive to me. I can tell by the reaction on here that I've hit a nerve with some of you. I've admitted that the HR route is not the way to go and Pro Stan's I the correct way to handle this. Maybe some of you need to ask yourselves WHY this is even an issue?

 

Correct it on the spot if it offends you. Going to HR or Pro Standards without saying something first will do nothing about the ignorance, however; it will further the stereotype of the subjects in question being "cowardly, catfighting, whiney little bishes".

 

Not sure exactly what youre asking, but when something is on an epic bull run over a sustained period of time there will always be dips. This most recent one was largely because foreign central banks did a lot of dumping of their real wealth to help kick their debt can down the road a bit by selling off massive gold holdings. Something the "gold bugs" have been very openly predicting would happen anyway, thus the periodic and swift price drops.

Higher highs and higher lows.

Exclude the blip in the early 80's, when we decided to mask the problem with exploding debt under the Keynesian fantasy of permanent reserve currency monetizers with no end or challenge, and its easy to see where the trend is going.



Especially when there is massive resistance to slight decreases in the rate of acceleration into the debt crisis we will have to endure.



You won't find one filthy rich person in the world that doesn't have 5-10% in metals at any given time, yet the "small fry" investor is looked down by the paper money/day trader/"Snyder Method" crowd for taking pretty much any position. Diverse investors who dollar cost average into long metals positions, particularly if they emply even a nominal amount of arbitrage by buying the dips, have done and will continue to do just fine with their metals position.

That said, there probably are a few folks who made big moves into the peaks and sold in a panic at the dips. But that can be said for every single stock and asset class in existence. People are selling APPL today who bought at 700+ and vice versa. Diversification is mandatory, and no investor is truly diverse without some level of a position in metals. The rich, banks and nations all do it without question, yet its somewhat taboo for the little guy who for some reason is expected to be 100% in fiat otherwise he's a fool when the inevitable dips happen.