Anybody use short term disability here? Buddy tore his ACL. Not ACL65pilot, just the ACL in the knee. We've been reading the contract but anyone with experience that has some do's and do nots?


Also on a separate but possibly similar subject - wear your seatbelts on the hotel van.

Couldn't have said it better....

I'm religious but not particularly superstitious. However, I had a rather larger crow make itself all too well known to my car as I was leaving the neighborhood this morning.

I buckled up tightly when Crackhead McGee drove us to the hotel tonight after another miraculous day of me not wrecking an airplane or depositing a winglet in the tail of a CRJ.

You do realize that America West's payrates are higher than USair's, right?

And we ALL should NOT forget that we are giving the company back 39% of our pay each and every month.....for the last five years now. How does that add up in your check-book balance???

When's the clean up bid going to be? I would imagine there will be a lot of reinstatements from this last AE and they need to time it to avoid hundreds of double training events.

Contact DPMA now and they will walk him through the process. Not hard but lots of PW and there will be a 2 week lag between DPMA checks kicking in after sick runs out and plan accordingly.

Make sure Doc fills out fitness to work statements based on pilot fitness standard - walk several miles without restriction and lower one's body weight down a rope hand over hand.

Harvey Watt looks for reasons to deny claims. If you have surgery you are temporary NPQ like a sick call and your medical expires until you get a fresh medical as opposed to losing your medical. You do not need to report surgery to FAA except when you go back for a fresh medical (unless for a "disqualifying" condition)

TOE is in full swing but they are dealing with the backlog quickly. The four month sits at home went away a few months ago. All of the stuff you are seeing go to GS's are due to sick out. I have flown every rotation the last two months due to last minute sick outs. I like it because I get great layos, but it is probably killing the company to see a reserve guy timing out by mid month.

Timing out???

Must be nice unless of course you are in LAX and you commute in 6 times a month for 60 hours of pay to cover 10 hour 3 days....

sucks being Jr.!!

I hear ya. I sat and never flew until about 18 months ago, and then I started breaking ALV or max pickup every month. It has gotten slightly more difficult but living in base makes it a lot more doable. I could not imagine sitting reserve and trying to fill up while commuting. If I ever move (for family reasons) and commute, I will be bidding down for QOL.