fantm11

Hello! Tracking the general "4 on, 2 or 3 off" flow for the month.

Wondering what the day-to-day looks like, specifically in MCO.

Understand MCO has more multi-day trips than TPA or FLL...not to worried what that looks like...because when you're gone...you're gone.

When sitting reserve in MCO, when does your availability typically start/end? A buddy at SWA says that they have an "early" and a "late" window, so he knows when he's no longer going to be called on a given day.

For day trips: when does the day usually start and end? Same buddy tells me that his day trips either start early or late, and he's back at a predictable time. Clearly weather is a factor impacting predictability, but generally...how does it look?

Insight appreciated!

Caribbeanpilot

RSV times here usually start at 3:30 am to 3:30 pm or 4:00 am to 4:00 pm. That varies based on operational needs and sometimes crew scheduling can change your rsv time to start at 10 am or 8 am and usually is a 12 hours block of rsv. If you get a trip assigned most of the time they call you one or two days in advance but sometimes they can call you within the 90 mins call out window, very rare that they do that, but could happen. Of course they have to give you 90 mins to show up to the airport when they call you, and if your rsv time finish at 3:30 pm if by 2:00 pm they haven’t assigned anything most likely you’re not going to be use. Day trips depends the pairing sometimes you have early show at 6:00 am and do 4 legs or sometimes you can have a 4:20 pm show just to do a PNS turn etc. You can do 3 or 4 legs one day sometimes we have 5 to 6 legs or sometimes you do only a turn. Our last flt in MCO departing if there’s no delay is around 7 pm last flt arriving around 9:30 pm normal operations.

I hope that information helps

fantm11

That’s great. Thanks! Realizing mileage my vary...how often do FOs get called out on RSV in MCO?

Caribbeanpilot

RSV tme for FO in MCO is very short. In low season probably not that much in high season which is from February to September a lot but rsv time for FO is about 2 months or less in MCO

fantm11

Thanks, CP! Appreciate all the info. A couple of more questions if you don’t mind:

Do you get to “bid” for your schedule? If so, how long did it take you to start getting what you wanted?

Caribbeanpilot

You bid every month for your schedule on Flica. Bid package comes out the 10th of each month and close on the 15th. Regarding what you can hold all is by seniority so most senior guy gets pretty muchs what they want and from there to the most jr is the award. But Always bid gor what you want sometimes people forget to bid etc and you might get the line that you want.

mecyn

I don't know who you are, but this comment makes me soooo happy!

93Sierra

Any updates on the atrs?

Caribbeanpilot

first week of March you should see the first atr.

93Sierra

Any idea on the setup (gps/acars)?