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Old 03-21-2015 | 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by thinkstraight
You guys already got your 5 day trips. Now you want more!!!!
You are exclamation pointing at the wrong guy. I live 25 minutes from the airport and hate five day trips but I'm junior so I'm forced into them. Clearly there isn't the demand for five day trips that they build them for in my category.

I couldn't care less about 12 hours or 10 hours between trips either, just explaining where they might have come from.
Old 03-21-2015 | 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by dalad
Ha ha me too. I add 500 rounds a month. 100 per weapon. Now if we could just figure out where RM aka "Goldfinger" has buried all his gold.
One can't have too many rounds!
Old 03-21-2015 | 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by profit
Maybe because the Greens almost always go to the top 50% the majority of the time, and the Jr. peeps never get a chance?
Bingo! I'll take my chance to fly a WS because I know I'll never see a green.
Old 03-21-2015 | 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Oberon
You are exclamation pointing at the wrong guy. I live 25 minutes from the airport and hate five day trips but I'm junior so I'm forced into them. Clearly there isn't the demand for five day trips that they build them for in my category.

I couldn't care less about 12 hours or 10 hours between trips either, just explaining where they might have come from.
My post was mostly in jest. I wasn't trying to be a d!ck. I do however hope that we do not spend a lot of negotiation power for a minority of pilots.
Old 03-21-2015 | 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by buzzpat
Bingo! I'll take my chance to fly a WS because I know I'll never see a green.
I would say that depends on your base and category. In mine most months I see plenty of guys near the bottom finally getting their GS#1 (since they get first dibs over someone senior who already had one). In other words, some categories have so many GS each month that almost anyone who puts in for one can get one at some point in the month.
Old 03-21-2015 | 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by flyallnite
The 'regular line' greenslip system generally favors a few pilots who live at the top of their categories, live in base, and have complete flexibility with their lives.
You must be junior and jealous to make a comment like that..Everything at the airlines is based on senority(as it should be). Also, that statement is not true in all categories. I see GS #3, 4, and 5 almost every month in my category. So the junior guys are getting their share too.
Old 03-21-2015 | 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by S3toHerk
When there are no reserves, why do guys White Slip and Yellow slip?!! My GS are getting screwed up! Blanket Party!
I did a WS last week and I knew GS's would go out. In did this because I dropped a trip and was so far below the GS trigger it would not have paid double. The trip I WS'ed was comutable and Q trip. No reason to GS.
Old 03-21-2015 | 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by buzzpat
Bingo! I'll take my chance to fly a WS because I know I'll never see a green.
Buzz,

Are you back? I think you may be pleasantly surprised about how much your bidding power has increased recently.


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Old 03-21-2015 | 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by BigGuns
I did a WS last week and I knew GS's would go out. In did this because I dropped a trip and was so far below the GS trigger it would not have paid double. The trip I WS'ed was comutable and Q trip. No reason to GS.
OK, waay short, WS to a decent month: I get it, esp if res manning looks like no one is going green. But WS to 99 block hours a month is nonsense. It kills a green that occasionally does go to someone more junior. It fixes company reserve manning problems. I see it all the time. Manning is terrible. Lottsa trips in open time. In step folks jumping thru hoops drop/swap/whatever to fly to FAR at straight pay rate. That is a prime example of pilots being their own worst enemies. OFG
Old 03-21-2015 | 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by OldFlyGuy
OK, waay short, WS to a decent month: I get it, esp if res manning looks like no one is going green. But WS to 99 block hours a month is nonsense. It kills a green that occasionally does go to someone more junior. It fixes company reserve manning problems. I see it all the time. Manning is terrible. Lottsa trips in open time. In step folks jumping thru hoops drop/swap/whatever to fly to FAR at straight pay rate. That is a prime example of pilots being their own worst enemies. OFG
One other observation: flying to FARs routinely is bad for marriages and alimony isn't based on reserve guarantee. OFG
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