Not necessarily, but your conversion has apparently been delayed from what was shown in the original projection. You might call Crew Resources in the morning to ask what her plan for you is.

What is shown on the Bid Monitor Report are the total pay and credit hours that go into the staffing formula.

And good for this pilot, too.

I've been a little mystified, however, by the fact this anonymous pilot would be at #6. This pilot is not going for very high quality trips, but I find it hard to believe there are that many senior pilots that would turn down two-day GS. I just re-read the coverage ladder, both for > and < 12 hours, and GS are not given out to Reserve first. They're simply in seniority order.

What am I missing? Are the more gluttonous pigs not able to drop fast enough to GS, because the anonymous pilot is one of too few on Reserve? That would be sort of ironic.

She has flown a few of the MEX trips. They suck unless you live nearby. Not commutable on either end.

Ever type a truly killer post and then your palm hits something on your keyboard, your computer makes a chime type of sound and your post disappears? Or do I just have a ****ty keyboard?

Scoop :cool:

I know a lot of guys that live nearby, or would extend, or commute in for a GS. The idea that commuters won't/can't GS is a myth. The number of people that live close enough to New York to make the drive in inconsequential is very small, probably smaller than the number of guys that sitting in their crashpad in Queens, because they didn't get home in time, and "poof" here pops a MEX for tomorrow morning.

I've set my bar a little higher for a GS this month, so I wasn't competing with this pilot, but there are literally hundreds in front of him/her, and I've seen some of them pick up one day GS's with an ATL turn.

I just can't explain this. I'm definitely not insuinuating there is anything wrong going on, I'm just saying it doesn't quite compute for me.

All. The. Time.

To put things in perspective, I flew my first GS the other day after almost 7 years on the property. I had a slip in every month since I was hired. It seems to require days off in order to avoid a conflict, negative reserves, and of course, eye of newt.

Here's to a lot of blind newts this summer.:D

Couldn't agree more. It was not unusual when I was based in MCO, for obvious reasons, to carry such precious people. I remember two in particular. You could not walk away without being moved, doing a little soul-searching, and ending up filled with gratitude. Gratitude for your own healthy children, but also gratitude because you met someone with such poise and grace.

These kids give you perspective, as you said, and they also give you an example to live by.

Sometimes it just turns out to be timing. I agree that in a large category, there "should" be more likelihood of at least someone sitting around willing to do it.

As someone else pointed out, RSV is the best way to open up your sked for rolling thunder IF you can get it rolling. This is especially true when the ALV is near it's upper limits (don't know what NYCERB's ALV is, just saying) because that will soak up another additional day, or more, for each REG pilot making them even less available for a GS.

Once you get the first 2 or 3 your sked is pretty wide open for the remainder of the month.

Another rendition of rolling thunder (though not exactly ROLLING thunder) is to bid to have all your days off at the end of the month - which is sometimes a better plan for the more junior among us. Your days all then "roll" in the PB bank and you can place them, coverage permitting, at the beginning of the following month to open things up even more - rolling from month to month. This sometimes works for the junior guys because other pilots are already past their G#1, 2, etc by the time the junior pilot hits his X days, putting him at/near the front of the line for several in a row. Of course, this assumes you didn't time out already during your RSV stretch of 17-18 in a row. It's definitely more of an art/crapshoot than a science.