Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Wasn't there questions on the survey about returning to the bow wave system? I'm sure the company would balk at that but our staffing in every category would increase wouldn't it? It'd be a lot of movement, at least I think it would be.

I'm sure they'd give back scope before they'd allow manning to increase. Manning to increase. Manning. Sorry Tim, I don't mean to say Manning.

Originally Posted by More Bacon

Holy sh!t...that puts it into perspective. Thanks for explaining, guys.
Is there a way to identify those who are doing this?
Time to go to work with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

Originally Posted by Roadkill

Speaking of Identifying folks based on their posts... for some reason on my last trip, I got interested in this. Carl posted something narrowing his status down, and I found myself, for no apparent reason, looking at the seniority list and category lists looking where the intersection was for "possible Carls". Unfortunately I found like 25 folks that could be him-OMG is that DTW 744 category tight on hiring and retirement dates! Like everyone flying it is from a 1 year window of life!

Anyways, it was actually an enjoyable hour of looking at seniority and hiring/retirement dates for a category I'll never see. There's something about the stalker biz that everyone digs heh... you know it's true.

It just occurred to me that I might have met Ferd the morning of the 7th going to work, before boarding. PM me if that was you, always need to figure out the local guys!

Hmm, one more point. Last 3 Capts I flew with were happy with 20% and "scope just isn't that critical to my stage in life". Getting a bit bummed that scope may be a complete FO cause...

Originally Posted by nwaf16dude

Yeah, they are picking up anything and everything in ATL. I'll be really surprised if I fly at all this month. Been chillin' at home on long call all week, playing a little golf, so I'm not really complaining, just hope I don't get bumped. My kids are starting to get irritated because I cramp their style when I'm home this much.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

A fix that may work is the bow wave, where guys could fly to ALV+20 six months a year but those extra five hours had to be banked and not paid. Max in your bank for this purpose would be 30 hrs in a year or 40 hrs total. Ergo, you would have to use 20 hrs in the bank to get the full effect of six months of ALV+20 the following year. It would allow guys on jets with longer trips to pick up that trip, but in a different month use their bank to fill up instead of flying. Capping the bank for these purposes means you limit the ability and the effect on staffing since the time would have to be banked then used. If it was not used the bank limits forbid future pickups to ALV+20 because the extra time could not be added to the bank.

It is the best staffing neutral solution I have come up with that meets the needs of guys that want to pick up time but can't due to rotation length.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Roadkill

Hmm, one more point. Last 3 Capts I flew with were happy with 20% and "scope just isn't that critical to my stage in life". Getting a bit bummed that scope may be a complete FO cause...

Originally Posted by Jesse

I fly with my share of DALPA volunteers as well.

Originally Posted by Roadkill

It just occurred to me that I might have met Ferd the morning of the 7th going to work, before boarding. PM me if that was you, always need to figure out the local guys!