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Originally Posted by LeineLodge
First determine what your priority is. Do you want to avoid commuting to RSV at all costs? Are you willing to take a potential pay hit to do so?
Be VERY careful with the RLL in a brand new category with not much flying. You correctly identified one of the risks: you might not be able to pick anything (much) up.
RLL basically just waives your REG line guarantee (65:00 hours) and says you're willing to accept any regular line, including all the way down to 0 hours. It's then up to you, if you want/can, to pick up flying from Open Time. Your guarantee as a RES pilot is 72 hours for December, so keep that in mind as well.
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I would not use the RLL option if it were me, as it puts you at risk of losing out on a lot of $, with no ability to pick up.
You can also have your newhire mentor and/or the PBS committee look over your bid when you get it put together. Never hurts to have a second pair of eyes on it, especially at first.
A few things have changed with regard to RLL's the last few rounds of PWA improvements. The language is below, but you CAN select to receive pay in the amount of the low end of the LCW in return for sitting a set number of "ultra" long call days (trip must be on your sched 24 hrs prior).
PWA:
19. A pilot holding an RLL who elects to receive a regular line guarantee of the lower limit
16 of his LCW, will be required to remain available for assignment to open flying as
17 follows:
18 a. The number of required days of availability will be determined by dividing the
19 difference between his regular line guarantee and his projection by a reserve pro rata
20 share, rounding the resulting quotient up to the nearest integer.
21 b. Such days will be placed on his line by mutual consent between the pilot and Crew
22 Scheduling in a single group, if possible. If such mutual consent cannot be achieved,
23 placement of the days will be determined by Crew Scheduling.
24 c. An increase of the pilot’s projection after placement of his required days of
25 availability will cause the number of such required days to be recalculated under
26 Section 23 D. 19. a. The excess number of such required days determined under this
27 recalculation will be removed from the pilot’s line, beginning with the earliest such
28 day on his line.
d. Following the 2200E PCS run on the 24th 29 of the prior month, the pilot may be
30 assigned recovery flying that:
31 1) is scheduled to report on a day within a group of his days of availability, and
32 2) is scheduled to release no later than three days after the end of such group of days
33 of availability.
34 e. The pilot:
35 1) will be notified of his assignment to recovery flying by telephone contact from
36 Crew Scheduling,
37 2) must be able to report for an assigned rotation no sooner than 24 hours from the
38 first attempted contact by Crew Scheduling, and
39 3) is obligated to fly the recovery flying whether or not he acknowledges such
40 flying.
I think it is a great option if your commuting. You may make a few $$ less than straight rsv, but you can attempt to ws/gs/oob ws to make up the difference. If you can't find a trip you have a 24 hour leash instead of the normal 12, without any SC obligation. I should note that I have never had a RLL line and I am just reading from the contract. I would confirm how the process works via a call to scheduling or ALPA before committing to a strategy.
You can also select a blank reg line. This would be my last choice as you get NO pay guarantee for the month, only what you can ws or gs. It may be nice if the category has a large amount of trips in open time to pick from but, if the category does not have many trips, you may end up with -potentially- zero pay for the month.