Ohhh. So, you're not planning on calling in sick until the age 60 rule is changed.

OK. Here's another plan you may want to think about...Just keep flunking your S/O checkride. Then, they'll ask you if you want to keep trying or go back to your old seat. Maybe by that time the age 60 rule will have been changed. If not, then call in sick. Maybe by then, we(ALPA) will have won the "pilot pushing/DSA" grievance we'll fight for you guys. And you can use that 686 hours you've saved up without worrying about your ACP hammering you.

Are you age 60?

The rumor is that many of our age 60 guys are doing just that. Reaching 60 and calling in sick. Now, why would the company question that?

I don't give a crap if anyone retires with 6 or 686 hrs. But, I do give a crap if their abuse causes me to jump through hoops when I want to go into my DSA. Just so some 60+yr old guy doesn't have to go to the panel, in order to take advantage of an upcoming rule change.

I too, have 686 hrs in my bank.

JJF14, I think it's "Their dreaming" vice "There dreaming".....just mentioning it...good luck in your reclaiming endeavors......hope you have a very good friend as a Doc, or a lot of Sh*t that needs fixing, cause "they" are watching very closely who/what/where/when and why folks take alot of sick time. This incoming inquisition was set up 7 years ago. They went after our "sick" bank and got it. Now it's the progressive turning of the screws, parallel to the scheds screws. A Plan is next........maybe 3 yrs from now?

[quote=Busboy;225242]Are you age 60?

The rumor is that many of our age 60 guys are doing just that. Reaching 60 and calling in sick. }

I'm wondering how many of the over 60, DC10 S/Os, that got excessed, will come down with anal glaucoma right before their 727 S/O class starts? When you get well, you get perspective and retire. No?

No reason to call in sick, if you're not sick. All the company is asking for is proof that you are sick. What a concept!!

The only thing that happens when a pilot reaches the regulated age is that pay is reduced to the S/O rate. Hmmm?? Pay is reduced on the basis of age alone.]

Actually George, pay is reduced to the pay scale of what you are qualified to fly. Perhaps you think you should get WB Capt's pay while you go through training? Naturally, if that were the case, we could expect all of you to utilize all that sick leave and 200% to drag out training to say, 8 months?

You go to the doc EVERYTIME you're sick?

And if you can't "prove" that you were sick on that day...then you weren't sick? Is that what you are saying?

When I was on the panel of the 10 I was told the over-60 guys call in sick 7 times more than the others....

Not true. If Captain XYZ has a medical problem at age 45 that restricts him/her to the F/O or S/O seat that Captain XYZ will be paid his/her Captain rate until they are activated in either the F/O or S/O position. The ONLY time that pay is reduced before downgrade training is when one reaches the "regulated age". It may be in the contract, and ALPA and the Company agreed, but is it a violation of Federal Law?