BlueMoon

Unreal, I didn't like our chances with the stick talent that Russia has, but being able to trot the same guy out there for every shot in sudden death is nice. He had the goaltender out of position on every shot.

BigZatD

Great win USA!!


Have a pay question. My time card has CREDIT APPLICABLE TO REG G/S SLIP PAY as 93.33, and then has 10:39 as reroute pay. Is the reroute pay on top of the 93 or included? Thanks.

Mem9guy

Pretty sure that it is half pay @ 10:39 on top of the 93.33

DAL 88 Driver

Be sure and check your time card again after the rotation shows "closed." There's a guy in scheduling who audits reroute pay and will take it off if he doesn't think it meets the criteria. If he does take if off, be sure and call him up and make your case (his name is Jim). I've had at least two occasions where I had to do this. The criteria he used to justify my reroute pay was whether or not Delta could have gotten me home some other way (i.e. deadhead) without rerouting me into another day. Anyway, FYI...

Timbo

Swap with the Pot Guru's, I have a question:

I got a crap line for March, worth 67. I'm going to try to swap one trip on my line, for two trips in the pot. There are about 35 trips in open time, 80% of them are the same trip, just on different days. Every time I've used SWP, it's always been a one for one swap, easy to input.

Is there an easy way to input a one for two swap, without having to list every single possible combination of all those 35 trips, ie. listing every trip on every day, times two, multiplied by all the possible combinations?

Or am I going to spend four hours typing in every possible combination?

Also, I know with white slips, you can put in a 'generic' request for a day length, as in -*5- for any 5 day trip. Can we do that on the swap w pot too?

What I'd like to say is,

"Swap this one POS trip, for two of those, on -any- of days that it's legal." I'm not fussy about my days off in March, not much going on.

I just don't know how to tell it that, in SWP speak, without listing every single combination.

Thanks in advance.

BigZatD

That rotation is closed and it's still there. We were supposed to go in and out of ATL on our last day and finish in LGA. All 4 legs cancelled and they sent us to MSP for a short layover and DH back on Thursday. Weather was fine in MCO and LGA on Wednesday and all flights went as scheduled to LGA. No way they couldn't justify not giving me the pay. Best part about that reroute, is the DH was delayed 3 hours to LGA on Thursday and I couldn't get 30 hours for my 2 day on Friday. Got pay protected for that as well. My 4 day was un commutable also so it worked out!

JungleBus

It wasn't a disparagement of the Colgan pilot group at all. I've flown with a lot of ex-Colganites here at CP, all good sticks, most of whom flew the Q400, and naturally we've traded notes on flying the airplane, the respective training programs, & our conclusions on 3407. When I say it was infamously bad, I mean it was inadequate to the demands of rapidly spooling up a large fleet of quirky aircraft in exactly the ways that you delineated and the NTSB noted, and I mean that this was pretty widely known before the Colgan accident. It was discussed on this board by Colganites, for starters. The NTSB report certainly paints a picture of a group of pilots that weren't given adequate training in their airplane. When you interview a large number of pilots and the majority can't give you the correct answer about when to use the Ref Speeds switch vs icing additive airspeeds, you can be reasonably sure that the training program is to blame, not that it's a bad batch of pilots.

I'm no stranger to inadequate training programs. Early on at CP it was laughably brief, and few of our instructors knew much about the airplane at the time. We were fortunate to have a good group of check airmen that got us spooled up quickly on IOE - which was also fairly brief at 25 hrs & ~10 segments. Fortunately the E175 is relatively idiot-proof; the Q400 is not. Eventually the FAA shut us down and made us redesign the program, it's much better today although it still pretty much makes the assumption that you have prior 121. Now the early inadequacy of our training program doesn't reflect poorly on our pilot group, it reflects poorly on early management that tried to spool up a Part 121 airline from scratch on the cheap. The same is true of Colgan under Pinnacle, trying to expand too quickly on the cheap. But that cheapness is the main reason they were awarded that flying in the first place. Accidents like Colgan were almost inevitable under the lowest-bidder outsourcing system combined with a lax FAA.

Going2Baja

Anyone notice the 100's of trips in open time in LAX/B? How are they going to cover THAT many trips? Oh yeah - everyone can pickup to max.

Speaking of that, If one pilot picks up can he give that trip to another pilot or is that 'Parking?'

Thanks - Baja.

Justdoinmyjob

I seem to remember Delta chasing JetBlue out of Atlanta with their tail between their legs in less than six months when they were foolish enough to attempt flying into Hartsfield.

TeddyKGB

Reroute pay is full pay, no credit.