Not sure where you're looking, but they sometimes cover with reserves from another base as well.

And that should cost them. It doesn't. The manning formula is a unicorn

Should it? Maybe I'm old school military, but seems like if you are on the hook for reserve and they are paying you, they should be able to use you however they see fit. Maybe my sight picture is too narrow on this and there are other trickle down effects I don't see

Furthermore, why even have domiciles? [sarcasm]

Maybe I'm a SNAP, but it's your mentality that's driving pilots out of the military. "To hell with quality of life, we gotta green up the slides!"

Instructional fix: widen your sight picture.

Give the guy a break Select. He missed my point though. My point is that the company is running bases short on reserve coverage and that effects the number one guy in that category as he cannot drop a trip. The manning formula is supposed to fix that after so much time and shortage of reserves. I am not really seeing that hence my contention that it is a unicorn. He is right to a degree in that as a reserve pilot you are essentially salaried as opposed to hourly, so when you are on the hook for reserve you should be at their beck and call. To believe that you should be able to bid reserve and take the month off is featherbedding. I'm not sure that benefits us really but if you want to make the argument have at it. And if that were the case reserve would go uber senior. Ido believe that reserve pilots should be able to pass on a trip until they are the most junior available though. That was some can avoid destinations/trips they do not want to fly.

How about letting them still us reserves to cover out of base flying, but have it effect the manning formula the same way a GS is supposed to?

That was what I was trying to get at.

The manning formula goes out the window with the amount of training we are doing. The constant adjustment ensures the formula is recalculated almost daily. Besides what penalty or restitution is made to the pilots if it is out of balance? NONE.

Lighten up francis, instead of gettin all 3rd grader on me, maybe come up with valid points, like trip dropping for reserve coverage. That makes sense to the caveman over here. Or as roger Moore said, make it function like green slipping. Regardless chill brobama....it's all good, I wear orange

There are so many varieties of ways CS can cut up trips, you are really shooting yourself in the foot if you get too specific. Case in point, out of base pilot puts "minimum 4 hours to report" as an option. Then there's a GS with a DH to his home town that leaves in 40 minutes, layover, and fly a leg to ATL. The commuter just lost a 2 day GS where he wouldn't have even had to have lifted a finger until day 2. Up to you, but I always have a blanket in-base GS on file.