Boomer

Well, if I had a kid that the Huskies ground into the dirt and he refused to ever stand up again, the other kids would wind up calling him Wheels. Or Ricky Bobby.

Here, this may help...

http://www.retrojunk.com/content/article/6843/index/

I'm the one with the "Number 7" shirt. Wheels is to my left.

Waves

I seriously hope that is a nick name. Wheels?

acl65pilot

Not from my experience. They computer FAR duty time. If you are assigned SC and subsequently assigned a trip, when you go sign in for the rotation it will show your FAR duty time on the bottom. DBMS will not compute duty time from the start of SC for a Flag operated trip, and only for one under domestic rules. The computer does keep track of it.

Now if they put it on your sked wrong, or build the rotation incorrectly, that is a different story. All things being correct, DBMS protects for whitlow, which btw should be a non event with the new ft/dt rigs in late 2013.

Whitlow does not apply for the PWA duty day limitations, only for total duty. Contractually SC without assignment is not duty and therefore does not apply towards the act/max duty day you see on a rotation. That limitation is from report. Whitlow works outside of that. DBMS will look at both. I have been assigned may trips domestically on SC that were going to be close. Everyone of them that ran in to an issue was being watched by scheduling and I was removed when it looked like we could not takeoff without there being a whitlow violation.

Waves

Probably because not all of the new contract items are applicable yet.

acl65pilot

More likely they are waiting for DALPA to clean up the live contract to one that does not have all of the strike though language in it. Its a new PWA and therefore will more than likely start fresh with no modifications. That will take some time.

Waves

Yeah that makes sense. ACL, have you heard any numbers for early outs yet?

acl65pilot

I can tell you what I "suspect"

I do not see any more than 50-60 744A's being allowed to leave before the training gets critical and the program is stopped. I suspect 100-150 total unless there are a lot of pilots from junior jets and seats that take it as well. On an outside you may see 300 but suspect 100-150 tops.

In the end it really depends on where they come from and how it impacts the training foot print.

I suspect we will see the numbers after they figure what they can train, and then a resultant AE shortly after that. Oct was rumored but I envision a early Aug AE if they need to train up 744A's.

Jesse

Those temps are out of control. Well if the cabin temp is above 76 that APU is gonna run. Doesn't hurt if the pax aren't wearing too much either.









(hat tip: reserve buddy)

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i forgot what i was going to ask...

acl65pilot

Jesse, last one was out of bounds.