Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 689065)

You can move back if the boss and the publishers will let ya! :D

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 689068)

Hee hee, the publishers ain't the problem!:cool:

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 689069)

I figured. Same reason I will probably be living in Texas till I die as well......

Originally Posted by satchip (Post 689071)

5,4,3,2,1,... Counting till Super posts a picture of some random UT hottie!

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 689046)

I live in the burbs way north of town near Lake Lanier, when I stop at the gas station on the way to work people stare. I doubt they think I'm an airline pilot because outside of the lake nobody round here has ever seen one of those before, they're probably thinking who wears a tie with a short sleve shirt other than Dwight Shrute? I think they guess cop or something. My neighbors kid asked me if I was a cop, I told her yes and I that I might give her a ticket for not wearing her helmet while riding her bike. She kind of laughed and then went home. :cool:

I forgot to tell her I wasn't really a cop so a couple of days later my wife made me go apologize.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 689049)

Anyone notice that the DC-9 does not have a fleet page. Poor DC-9 :(

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 688801)

The SC days are not bad, still I'm grateful for D-ALPA negotiations to reduce their frequency.

There are still some little holes that could be closed. For instance, say they have a trip that duties in 10, or 11, hours from now. As a long call pilot they would have to proffer this trip to you at premium pay. But, they instead convert you to Short Call at the required 10:00, then hold the trip out of "open time" and nail you at exactly the opening of your short call window for a duty in at, well, "NOW, we'll put it into the computer, do the best you can."

Most of us get in the shower, realize that if the jet is late hundreds of people will be effected and possibly their connections too. We drive as fast as our dilapidated 300,000 mile reserve airport beatermobiles will go through rush hour traffic and show with no breakfast, or even a cup of Joe.

At any airline the schedulers must "high five" when they grab an extra hour or two out of a pilot's coverage. Another trick is the short call for 4 hours in the morning, then put to rest for exactly eight and another short call sit that evening. They count these "two" short call periods as "one day."

Again, holes to be closed. I've never been used in the "bifurcated short call days" (my made up term) but I would call in fatigued if assigned a back to back red eye on one of those deals.

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 689050)

Oh Ferd! You USAF brother. I hear you. Ever spend some time at Pattiya Beach? Had a loadmaster once who broke his ankle on that revolving bar thingy. We all laughed until we came to the conclusion that he'd actually broken his ankle. Ahh, good times.