Ouch. I've done this whole gig a few times for court martials and I've never made it past the selection stage. I'm far too right wing in regards to my views on justice for any defense attorney to let me possibly sentence his/her client. I also strongly oppose large verdicts in civil cases which makes me untouchable to a plaintiff's attorney. Pretty sure my jury duty will last 1 day.

 

I'm the same as you when it comes to justice - right winged as well. Last year had to do jury duty and thought "they won't select me!" Nope, the DA liked conservative people like me. Fortunately the trial was only one day, but a long one at that. One sure way to not get selected is act stung out like one person in our group. She was elderly and feebelish and kept chanting "that poor boy needs his mama. It's not his fault!" She was saying this about the 22 year old on trial. It was kind of comical hearing her keep saying this, but we were not about to laugh being in court. Needless to say, she did not get picked.

She probably walked out laughing saying "haha works every time! Got out of it again!"

Definitely a sure way to prevent getting picked, but as someone on here stated serving on a jury is a very high calling and I didn't take it lightly. The decision we made affected both parties. It's just sad that people who are self employed do lose out so much. In the airline industry, most of us are pay protected and that I was very thankful for that day.

 

Completely agree that jurors are often treated poorly by public officials who see their positions as jobs.

But where should we get the money to make a juror "whole?" Or perhaps we should only select jurors from the homeless?

Back to the topic: FedEx just announced it will begin fishing from the same pool as DAL and the other majors. It's a good time to be a pilot. Here's to hoping you all spend a very short time in the pool before you're on the stringer with us!

 

Trying to gauge where the pool stands...

Anyone from a Sep 3rd or later interview group get called for a class? From what I can tell that's roughly where the pool has left off.

As far as the next class, I think it's Nov 17th, but if someone has better Intel, chime In!

Lastly, what is the projected rate of SSP hires for the the next few classes?

 

3Sep interview group has been called for the 3Nov class. I haven't heard anything about future classes or SSP.

 

Good data point, thanks. There used to be a detailed excel file someone maintained, but it has fizzled.

 

A few from 4 Sep interview group got the call for 3 Nov as well.

 

The pool used to have a lot more people and they had to wait a lot longer. With the quick turn from interview to indoc the need for an excel document went the way of the dodo.

 

Here is to the training machine continuing to run at full speed!

 

The spreadsheet was money when guys were trying to figure out 5-7 month waits for training earlier this year, and when to give notice at work/retire from the military, etc. Much simpler now... about 2 months. No need for a grassroots spreadsheet anymore, although it was a thing of beauty. Moment of silence for MontanaMike and Badger... the Dread Pilots Robert.