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Originally Posted by deadseal (Post 2019827)

I talked with another scheduler, and this is correct. You can drop whatever you want, but you have to stay within the 4-99-4 format. As crew dang told me, It seems like you can really work it using a couple iterations of pcs to slowly get things lined up the way you want. I've been in the line for 3 months now and just figuring out you can move/drop X and reserve days. I was never the smartest fish in the pond

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Originally Posted by contrails (Post 2019931)

I'm confused; you said you can't violate the 3-99-5 . . . but you successfully turned reserve of December 1 2 3 4 5 into reserve of December 1 2 Xday 4 5 ?

The December 1st/2nd and 4th/5th are 2-day workblocks which would violate the grouping rule. So you were able to do that with the payback day?

I was assuming the quote above was correct. Shedulers usually (but not always) know what they're talking about in their own sphere of expertise. If deadseal was told correctly, then a PD is different from a PB and APD. I can 100% verify that APD and PB can break the 3-99-5 rule since I did both this month. That make more sense?

Any ATL 717 FOs want Christmas off?

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Originally Posted by satchip (Post 2020018)

Any ATL 717 FOs want Christmas off?

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I'm sure there is a couple. Awfully nice of you.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 2019730)

In other news. I've decided to be a slam clicker.

Thanks,
FTB

Amen. It's bad enough to sit there for hours on end listening to some over 55 year old(and the list is 48% of them) muse about the end of their career and the economy and the politicians and ALPA and retirement and -all while you're trying to read your manuals on your surface to ignore them. Then go into a restaurant and add alcohol to this same person and you get them trying to shoot their watch showing what they did during Vietnam as an A- something fighter pilot in her majesty's yacht club, or they think they can land any tail in the bar including the bartender chick who is showing some love for an extra tip. It's actually pretty comical.

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Originally Posted by cni187 (Post 2020048)

Undoubtedly you're a treat to fly with as well...but do you happen to see your own name in open time a lot?

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Originally Posted by cni187 (Post 2020048)

haha! I think we can all relate at some point. The thing that gets me is when a guy gets offended when I don't want to get a beer. We just spent up to 8hrs in a closet sized room with each other. I know everything I could possibly want to know about you and more. We are going to do it again tomorrow.... and then the next day. I just want to turn on sports center and zone out. Its not you its me :D

The ATL CPO is having its employees search all of the V-files and confiscate any Orange swag found in them...

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Originally Posted by duece12345 (Post 2020062)

This ++1. But hey, I invented "It's not you, it's me."

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Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 2019799)

You still can't violate the reserve rules with the PD. Once you get down to a block of 3 days of reserve, the only way to get rid of the middle day is to drop all three days. The other one that gets you is if you have a stretch of more than 7 days you sometimes cannot drop the middle days because it may create another off day grouping and you are only allowed 4 of those in a 3-99-4 category.

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Originally Posted by deadseal (Post 2019827)

Not true. A Personal Drop (P/D) is not an X Day. I am in a 3-99-5 category, and have P/D days in every one of the last 5 months except November (because Reserve coverage was insufficient). In every one of those months, I have exceeded the maximum 5 'off' periods - because a P/D is NOT an X day, and thus does not trigger the rule. Again, "Move X days" is different, and must obey the rule. On the schedule, P/D displays in the "STAT" column just like "SICK". Additionally, I have P/D the middle of three days, and had two one-day periods of reserve in all those months. Want to see my schedule?;) Hope that helps.

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Originally Posted by MikeF16 (Post 2020006)

I can add 100% verification that a Personal Drop P/D can break the 3-99-5 rule.

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Originally Posted by Mem9guy (Post 2020089)

The ATL CPO is having its employees search all of the V-files and confiscate any Orange swag found in them...

I have an orange lanyard but I stopped wearing it because it was too short. This will make me bring it back out.