Lol! Well if you put it that way......how old are you?;)

Denny

Enough to know better, but not enough to care!

Rebel without a cause

Seems to be the intuitive answer but what in the contract prevents a pilot from exercising their contractual rights?

The fact that you are unqualified prevents you from being awarded a gs. I'm not gonna look it up because, as you say, it's intuitive.

If you really want to pursue it, call the scheduling committee. Bet you get the same answer.

Denny

Being NQ / Not legal isn’t stopping Crew Scheds from assigning SC to said NQ folks.

You never know when someone is gonna bang-in sick for their recency sim. Gotta keep the machine moving. 😁

I’ve never seen that but we are talking about assigning/flying a trip not about short call assignment. If this indeed happened it’s a phantom short call assignment and is strictly based on numbers to fill slots of short call. I have been assigned short call when there is absolutely no way I could be used. Can said short call pilot be assigned a trip? No, because s/he is unqualified.

Denny

Crew Scheduling gonna crew schedule.

The most simplistic answer Denny didn't want to look up is one of the steps of coverage in 23 N/O is "Available Qualified pilots"

Of note, a non-qualified pilot can still PCS personal drop.

ive seen it twice his month...two times I’m on SC with another person....same days avail, same bucket, same everything. I get tagged with a trip...when I call Scheds and reminded them the trip should have gone to the other guy IAW the RUO, it took them 6-9 minutes of hammering away on their keyboard before them come back with “oh, it appears he didn’t do CQ, so he is NQ”. When I asked why they are putting people on SQ that are qualified to fly a trip, both times they didn’t have an answer.

it’s possible all 2-3 people getting SC could be NQ...scheduling “thinks” they have people at the ready when they really don’t, and they don’t figure it out until they run the TC for the short notice trip and none of the SC pilots names show up....NOOPS will follow...I saw two domestic NOOPs out of NYC just the other day as I was getting tagged with a 5 day RES trip.

Delta IT is a sh!t show that hampers scheduling ability to correctly do its job....I expect more form a fortune 100 company.

yes I’m chatted with the CPO both times to hightlight scheduling ineptitude.

Yep. Had something similar happen to me. Expired on landing currency. No NQ on my schedule, I get a call.....Scheduling says, congrats you have a charter to Bulgaria tomorrow. I’m like thanks, but I’m not current. NQAT on my schedule by the end of the day. Bounces scheduled soon after. Delta IT blows and it’s a **** show in scheduling. A lot of times just chasing their tail. I put ZERO stock in reserves avail, SC, coverage ladder, etc, these days.....