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And now for another episode of "Teach me my Contract."

Legend has it that if you have mil leave one day, you can't be scheduled for a short call that lasts through noon of the day prior. I haven't been able to find the verbiage in the document, however. Do any contract experts happen to know?

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Originally Posted by FrankCobretti (Post 855860)

I just found it. Page three of LOA 22 (not 20 as discussed earlier). Hope this helps!

Amend Section 23 S. 9. to add f. and g. (new):
9. A short call pilot:
a. will remain
.
.
f. will be released from on-call duty not later than 1200 base time on his last oncall
day prior to a "hard" non-fly day (e.g., golden day, MLOA, ALPA drop).

Off the top of my head it is in LOA 22. It also quit pro rating days off for reserve pilots in check ride months.

Thanks, gents!

And a pleasure to meet you in person, Dragon!

You guys work at DAL? :eek:

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Originally Posted by FrankCobretti (Post 855863)

Thanks, gents!

And a pleasure to meet you in person, Dragon!

Same here!!

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 855865)

You guys work at DAL? :eek:

Work might be too strong a word:eek:

It's amazing how agreeable Crew Scheduling can be when you read the contract to them. :)

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Originally Posted by Superpilot92 (Post 855728)

How dare you steal my family photos!!! ;)

The photos are just as great as your videos:

Super Sucks Girl into GTO motor intake

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 855713)

There have been a lot of posts about single engine taxi and APU but I have not seen anyone inquire about our ground air. A couple of points:

1. It should be automatic - we should not have to ask.
2. If the guys hook the hose up with 17 kinks - call and ask them to fix it. If we keep fixing it they will never bother to do it right.
3. Who maintains our A/C units - The Marx brothers? Why is it that they so often do not work? Its not like A/C being about 100 years old could still be considered cutting edge technology. It seems far too many of our gates lack working power and air. I wonder how often the A/C does not work on the 4th floor?

Scoop

I agree completely Scoop. In fact, I went through DTW twice this week. Both times, they turned on the air but never thought to spool out the hose and plug it in. Had to walk down both times and ask them to do it. One time they did it, the other time they blew me off. Doesn't make a lot of sense for us to push the single engine taxi thing and cross-bleed starts when at other times the APU has to run for an hour because its 90 degrees in Detroit and the ground guys don't bother to hook up the air. Its ridiculous.