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OK, I will leave you with this.

Anyone hearing of a HNL 7ER base?

Capt told me this one!

Waves, for some reason it is still not showing contact info. See if you have to verify the e-mail addy.

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 790340)

OK, I will leave you with this.

Anyone hearing of a HNL 7ER base?

Capt told me this one!

And YOU.. the Puxitawney Phil of APC bought it?

Now I am truly worried.

I did not say I bought it! Waves just wanted a conversation piece so I figured I would help out! :D

Idea is nice though.

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Originally Posted by JobHopper (Post 789903)

At NWA, we insisted on 5-day trips - lots of 'em. The southern section will come to appreciate them as more guys are forced into commuting.

Hate to disagree with you, even as a commuter, 5 days is too long to be away. Also, if you get stuck with a bad trip it is nearly impossible to get rid of because of coverage for all 5 days. Not looking forward to 5 day trips. I can get a full month with 3 4 days if they're properly constructed. I'd still need at least one more trip even if I get two 5 day - don't need three 5 day trips a month.

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 790342)

Waves, for some reason it is still not showing contact info. See if you have to verify the e-mail addy.

OK, I'll check it out. By the way, is this a friendly PM, or am I in trouble? :rolleyes:

Edit: OK acl , check it again.

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 790340)

OK, I will leave you with this.

Anyone hearing of a HNL 7ER base?

Capt told me this one!

Yippeeee, pack your bags, we're moving to Hawaii. :D

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Originally Posted by ExAF (Post 790047)

Some at NWA insisted on lots of 5 day trips. That would be the commuters. The other some of us that do not commute hate 5 day trips and do not insist on them. I just hope there are enough to make the commuters happy without forcing the leftovers on the rest of us be it north or south.

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Originally Posted by jiminmem (Post 790139)

Going back to the 5 day trips, you can have them. I'm in Memphis and suddenly we're full of them. I do find it odd that everyone hear demands them, yet as one of the most junior block holders down here, or back in DTW when I was there, I usually ended up with 3 5-day trips a month.

I'm guessing MEM is seeing them just to keep us busy and prevent our closure. We basically leave MEM and may see it once during those 5 days, when we return. I do miss our 1 day FL turns, those were the glory days.

Why would anyone want 5-day trips? I love it when I can pick up a high time 4-day trip with 6-7 hours average block time a day. That means, I work four days, max out my 30 in 7 time. The result is, I spend 1-3 days less at work than an individual who is doing 5-day trips.

Doing three 4-day high-time trips gives me an average of 19 days off ... and depending on the actual block time flown, lots of days to pick up a greenslip.

Just saying ...

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Originally Posted by DAL73n (Post 790351)

Hey DAL,

I think you're missing the point here. It's not so much that we liked the 5 day trips. It's more that we liked minimizing the number of commutes more. I think that will become more evident with the new cadre of commuters coming down the pike.

Best

gnewt

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Originally Posted by Gnewt (Post 790366)

Your looking at this the wrong way ... and you're spending more time at work.