This is my life.

I am the #1 Reserve in base. (I bid it, I also live in base) I hold all weekends and holidays off.

In November, I flew a total of SIX days.

Since I live in base, I essentially had 24 days off last month.

To the guys complaining, your doing it wrong. I would never go back to my office job in NYC.

 

Thank you for your rambling.

Are you at Mesa? Because lots of us are sitting at home.

What, should we rename this thread "incoherent opinions about what is possibly happening at many regionals in the upcoming months?"

How hard is it to keep the MESA forum on track with questions being asked then answered by current Mesa pilots.

Good grief.

 

Well you were number one on RSV, but now that you've just broadcast that information... LOL! TMI - shhhh.

Prior, understand too, that your good times are largely a result of the back-fill hiring being done to prepare for all the upgrades to the 175. This creates an overstaffed situation - hence offering Vol Leaves.

To the person asking the question about working on Reserve. Even as the most senior person, it will ebb and flow. Some stretches of months will be good to you, some stretches you will work every day. I'm talking Macro here - from a decade of experience here. I have always bid RSV, been in 4 different domiciles, 3 air-frames, and never commuted. It is not always as rosy as Prior's current life.

 

I'm sorry Prior - your last two posts are rubbing me the wrong way. I just can't shake it.

Your experience is not indicative of this place long-term.

AND it certainly is not indicative of what a new-hire will experience. At least not initially.

Enjoy these times, because I guarantee you, it will turn on a dime!

Oh and btw. Once they took away CMF / CML. Uh yeah, the union gave it away. The pilot with lowest credit got called first. That time period sucked a big pile of dog crap! And we're only extremely lucky to have gotten it back. I just wish you wouldn't be so brazen about getting paid for not working - makes me freakin' nervous dude!

 

Just curious, how is senior Charlotte for FO's?

 

Fairly Jr. Might not get it strait out of the shoot, but within a few months should be no problem.

 

Clt is the second most junior base. Most have been going to clt/iad

 

When he says he was the #1 Reserve in base, prior121 means he was "the best" reserve in base--he's not talking about seniority on the reserve list--he just means he's better than the other reserves

 

Hey navmode, would you mind taking a second and expand a little on your post, 18 new hires in a class does not sound like a lot of people. Is mesa having concerns about getting folk's to apply? I sent in my app a few months ago and never heard a peep!

 

Sulk, I'm sorry I have rubbed you the wrong way but "I" set myself up for this. This is not luck on my part, this was all planned.

I came to Mesa in the spring after doing a lot of research. I knew that Mesa would be hiring well into the foreseeable future therefore I would quickly move up the FO seniorirty list at a JR base. I knew the 170's were coming before I stepped foot onto Mesa property.

I moved to base so I wouldn't have to commute. I bid reserve so I get the days off I ask for.

I didn't come to mesa as a shot in the dark. I took the right steps so that 8 months ago I knew I would have a good QOL. I will not upgrade to the first available. I will decide on a base that I can comfortably move to, etc.

Sometimes I don't pity these guys complaining. Ok, so your purchased a house in rural Colorado and now your b*tching about commuting to CLT for reserve. These are choices YOU made, no one else. I understand bases close left and right in the regional world. That is why I have no plans of purchasing a house until I get (if i get to ) to a stable mainline carrier. And when I do it will be in a base that most likely won't close. IAD, ORD, DFW, NYC area, etc.

You really need to plan for this career if you want to do it comfortably.