Yeah I wasnt sure why I never asked why you were on these boards as a scheduler.... because your a PILOT!!! Yeah reserves hell but I'd like to thank you guys for never calling me, I sit at the gym all day and today recorded a personal best of running 10 miles.... Thanks Comair....I guess Im training for a marathon now, since ehhh.. I dont fly! hahah! Things look good for October if Im not mistaking I move up 2 spots and 1600 of flying being added, hopefully that means flying and if I am lucky maybe a long call or two...... living 1.45 from JFK is not fun on 2 hour call outs...but then again, there is LA Fitness to sit at for 12 hours :)

Also, are you going to be ATC up in the tower or what? Ramp? Yeah thats smart of you to get the finances in order before jumping into flying...congrats on everything btw

CVG's block hours decreased from September which decreased from August...more sitting around I guess. And there are more people coming back to CVG in October. I think I might need to bid to fly just so I dont get taken off my long call as much.

Ramp tower

I would love to work for ATC

The reason i came on this board was to find out more about how me being a scheduler can get along with you the crew better. I wanted to let you guys see that we all arent bad and arent out to get you. Im a person i make mistakes im no better or worst than anybody else that works there.

Over the cousre of a few months ive been posting ive learned alot about what pilots feel management is doing to them, how ALPA is a neccesary evil, about how fatigue is a bigger factor than what thought it was. I just enjoy talking to you guys about what its like out there. Unfortunatly from my desk in CVG I cant see what goes on out there and you cant see what goes on behind my desk. I wish we could someday role play and then mayby we can get an idea where each out comes from. I mean by that Like i jumpseat on a 4 day and you sit at my desk when hell opens its gates up. All i ever ask is to remember this there 40 of us and 1600 of you. you out number us what 55 to 1. Odds are`we will make a mistake somewhere. Yes sometimes we get are ass handed to us. not enough of us to handle it. When in Irops you better believe there only 5-6 schedulers on the desk. On a normal day theres 4 schedulers. Why cause we have the be Junior manned to come in and my line is ive been drinking. same line 90% of you give me when i try and JM. Funny how that works.

NEGATIVE GHOST RYDER

FLY LOW & FLY HARD

All i ever ask is to remember this there 40 of us and 1600 of you.

One phrase, UPDATE the outdated scheduling Software Comair is using, I know that Scheduling at just about every airline is doing their best but you could use technology to make the job more efficient.

I wish there were more Schedulers like you...not that you can make everything peachy for all of us by lurking around these forums, but because you have a fantastic attitude, and a strong will to learn...You are a great asset to Comair!

hey man how r u?? have to say thanks for the post. it really does help to get an understanding on both sides of the fence.talk to u soon. Randy

there is no benefit to pick up flying on soft days is there? Flyin on hard days off is the only way to get time on top of my guarantee correct?

you r correct only on hard days sucks but thats the rule

Maybe schedulers should do what we get to do. It would be something like this.

Commute to JFK to work scheduling. You need to be there for a 5am show but since obviously there are no flights that get in at that time you commute the day before which is actually your day off of which you only had two of. Then you need to stay in your crash pad (you have to get a crashpad since an apartment in NYC is about 1500$ to 2500$ in the bad section of town, and that is double what you make in a month) over night but since there are 12 of you sharing the crashpad you get there and share a room with four other people. You try to get to sleep at a reasonable hour but since there are so many people coming in and out you don't and now you have to get up at 3am to make the bus to get to JFK on time for your 5 am report.

Next you show up at work and clock in at 5am and start working getting ready for your shift (after 5 hours sleep which really feels like two hours) but you don't actually get paid for it until 6am even though you had to punch in at 5am. Now you work for two hours maybe three or even as little as one. Then you just have to stop working and sit there for 3 hours or even 4 hours without getting paid. You still have work to do but you can't do it because someone else needs to use your computer. But you have to wait there again without getting paid until your computer becomes free. By this time you have been at work for 8 plus hours but you still have 6 hours to go.

Finally you can complete your work but you were requested to complete scheduling in another city. So you get there and the van doesn't show up to pick you up but while you are waiting to get to the hotel you still are not getting paid. See while you are actually waiting there you are getting rest so you can get back to work in 8 hours. You by law do not need sleep only rest. So you go to the hotel which you find out has nothing close by to get something to eat at so you just do with out. The hotel is crappy but it really doesn't matter once in awhile since you only have to stay in hotels 260+ nights a year. You write a CCL about the crappy hotel which travels at the speed of light to nowhere.

I could go on and on but Writing a book on this just doesn't explain how crappy life as a regional pilot is.