Reserve for Dummies
09-25-2022, 04:32 AM
#661
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I bid reserve and it popped up on my schedule 4 days in advance so it had to be OE/training that assigned it. It certainly wasn’t a regular reserve callout. Hopefully ACE sorts it out, but duty pilot isn’t a bad idea if it happens again. Definitely seemed a PWA violation.
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09-25-2022, 08:31 AM
#662
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Outside of OE, none of that has any bearing on this.
09-25-2022, 11:33 AM
#664
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The PWA says in black and white no reports less than 10 hours from the end of the last no fly day. The line check assigned to me violated that. Will see what ALPA says in a few months.
09-27-2022, 06:24 AM
#666
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Flew a multi day GS recently. CS never assigned me the PB days to the next reserve days inside this month.
Can I wait until the end of the month and then call to have the PB days added to my bank for future months when I can use them to a greater advantage to strategically drop reserve days of my choosing and break up chunks of reserve days?
Can I wait until the end of the month and then call to have the PB days added to my bank for future months when I can use them to a greater advantage to strategically drop reserve days of my choosing and break up chunks of reserve days?
09-27-2022, 06:34 AM
#667
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Flew a multi day GS recently. CS never assigned me the PB days to the next reserve days inside this month.
Can I wait until the end of the month and then call to have the PB days added to my bank for future months when I can use them to a greater advantage to strategically drop reserve days of my choosing and break up chunks of reserve days?
Can I wait until the end of the month and then call to have the PB days added to my bank for future months when I can use them to a greater advantage to strategically drop reserve days of my choosing and break up chunks of reserve days?
I would not necessarily agree with the plan to use them to drop reserve days. The more lucrative plan would be to bid a line and use them to drop high time trips (if reserve coverage allows). Know the rules if your using less payback days than trip length.
also,…if you’re relatively new…keep the 168/30 rule in your reserve gameplan. I see a lot of new hires put x-days, drops on reserve day 6 and 7. You’re likely unusable on those days unless CS can stick you with a 30 hour layover. Again, maybe you have a reason you want the days hard scheduled off…that’s understandable.
09-27-2022, 06:57 AM
#668
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Joined APC: Oct 2009
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Flew a multi day GS recently. CS never assigned me the PB days to the next reserve days inside this month.
Can I wait until the end of the month and then call to have the PB days added to my bank for future months when I can use them to a greater advantage to strategically drop reserve days of my choosing and break up chunks of reserve days?
Can I wait until the end of the month and then call to have the PB days added to my bank for future months when I can use them to a greater advantage to strategically drop reserve days of my choosing and break up chunks of reserve days?
09-27-2022, 07:04 AM
#669
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Posts: 5,807
That's certainly one method, but it's highly dependent upon what someone considers "lucrative." I tend to agree with his plan because I consider lucrative to be fewer days actually worked and fewer nights away, while making above guarantee.
09-27-2022, 07:38 AM
#670
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Joined APC: Apr 2018
Posts: 295
yep…so long as you have knowledge of the options…then really everything can make sense in a given situation.
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