Um I do every walk around on my FO's leg, regardless of weather. So I kinda need them.

There are at least two numbers you can call, one is the standard crew scheduling number, just listen to the menus and push 4 (?) for PBS assist. It's only manned for the week that the bidding is open. The other way to get ahold of a PBS expert is to call the DALPA office, but that only works M-F, 9-4.

Captain's doing walk arounds on legs when the FO is PF is being more common on the narrowbodies. Especially from new Captains. It's a good culture change IMO. I believe it originated from the North.

you believe wrong.

I was doing them 20 years ago, Southside.

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Your belief's are incorrect. Walkaround's have been done by many Captain's from the south side's for quite some time's.
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Sometime's I crack myself up.
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Thanks. I'm trying to get the most out of my shadow time after completing training. I haven't used "followed by" that much and while I think I'm doing it right, I'm still a bit weary.

I've got 7 days of Shadow on the calendar. I'm trying to put a 5 day starting on day 7 of the Shadow days to maximize that feature. I've looked through and found the trips that will make it work to get 6 days of trips to precede day 7 with a 5 day starting day 7, but I thought this line might make it work the easiest way:

Award pairings If Departing on Aug 4, 2016 If Pairing Length = 3 days followed by Pairings If Departing on Aug 7, 2016 If Pairing Length = 3 days Followed by If Departing on Aug 10, 2016 If Pairing length = 5 days


I then put two more bid lines in like the one above, but for different combinations (4 day, 2 day, 5 day and 2 day, 4 day, 5 day).

Think it will work? There are only three 5-day trips starting on Aug 10 so I'm going to add another set of bid lines like above, but with the option of a 4-day starting on Aug 10.

Edit: I thought that if you got awarded a trip that started on the last day of your shadow period you were paid for the whole trip. Thinking of it some more, I'm not so sure.

I have talked to far more north captains that have said they will never, ever do another walkaround than those from the south.

8 years post merger...

Here in 2016 I wonder what year it will be before I go a whole year without hearing any sort of North/South ****ing contest? 2020, 2025? Eventually I suppose we'll run out of fNWA or fDelta pilots, but theoretically that could be 2007 hires from fDelta and if they were 25 when hired.... all the way out to 2047! (assuming the retirement age isn't 80 by then!)

Not gonna happen. Red book, green book, north, south, western, panam etc... I hear all those thrown around from time to time.