My sick bank target is 3 months' SL for LTD.

 

Did one on OE DCA DEN full 900ER 38C temp

 

^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^

It was ingrained into me starting here to try to get to 3 months/255-ish hours of sick bank in the event I lost my medical and needed that bridge sick time to get to LTD eligibility.

Flew with one captain who used his sickation time liberally. Then he had to go out on LTD and complained that the company did nothing to help him out when he had no sick time and no income coming in for three months. He complained that it was all ALPA's fault that he had no sick time or access to LTD for three months, too.

 

I'm LUAL; recalled to the LCAL side in early 2012. Diagnosed with cancer Dec 2012. Wasn't allowed to use my SL balance I earned at LUAL. Went two months with no paycheck. It was suboptimal.

 

That’s really a shame.

 

Jesus that’s crazy.

 

Jesus, that's pathetic, shameless, and ought to be illegal. CORE 4 my sphincter.

Guam's Asia Pacific retired their fleet in June of this year. They looked great with the winglets.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/92232-guams-asia-pacific-airlines-retires-last-b727

 

I would have filled a grievance and demand a check for 2 months (146 hours ) of pay from my sick bank at United
and you would have won the grievance

seriously

 

Same Captain as previously mentioned. I introduce myself in ops and let him know that it's my second trip with Mother U. He looks at me with a smile and says, "SO!, You know the TK way! Today, you will learn the EASTERN way!

Climb profile was 250 to 10,000' then 300 knots to M.80 then M.80 to cruise then accelerate to the flight plane, usually .84.
I start to accelerate to 300 knots at 10K He then tells me to push it over a bit until I get the VMO clacker and then go uphill with it. "Click-click'-click-click-------------click---------------------click-----------------------------------------click with the IAS needle laying right on the VMO needle. Then when reaching cruise he had me leave the power up and just wait and see how much speed we could get before reducing power and synching the fans. Then once at TOD throttles to idle and Click-click-click-----------------------------------click.

The whole key was keeping the clicks to a minimum, yet never straying more than a needle width from the VMO needle. This is all assuming smooth air of course.

We were super early and got to the gate up on gas. We then went to a great Gentlemans refreshment establishment that evening.

Good times.

 

Damn that's sexy. I was born juuuust a little too late. Closest I came was the FE written I took while trying to get a job at FedEx (sadly, they never called!). I had to settle for living vicariously through the stories by my various Captains. And there were some good ones!