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Old 12-04-2013, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
OK; 73N has several 18 hour four days (late duty in, red eye back).

If we are bidding rotations:

(1) I want rotation A on the 19th
(2) I want rotation B on the 21st
(3) I want rotation C on the 20th

Will PBS build your schedule in sequential order of requests or will it give you A, then take that away and give you C?

Since I'm not going to be home, or making money, it becomes all about the layovers.

Also if bidding to avoid a pilot, do you put that first, or last?
PBS will indeed shuffle your rotations and possibly remove one; however, it will NOT do this shuffle above any "prefer" or "avoid", so if you put one at the bottom of your by-name requests it should leave any you get.
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Old 12-04-2013, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Flamer
BOOM! Airborne reserves. Launch the alert-5 A320.
Sorry no crews available. Now what?
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Old 12-04-2013, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by pilotc90a
nah, she left in frustration 18 months ago...
Did she really?
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Old 12-04-2013, 05:58 PM
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Top Gun Inspiration Now Highest Ranking Woman at the Pentagon

At the defense department, the new No. 2 is a former Top Gun.

Well, sort of.

Christine H. Fox, who will assume the duties of acting deputy secretary of defense Thursday, was the inspiration for the Kelly McGillis character in the 1986 blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise, according to People magazine.

She’ll be taking over from departing Deputy Secretary Ash Carter, who announced his resignation in October.

“Christine … is a brilliant defense thinker and proven manager,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a news release issued Tuesday. “She will be able to help me shape our priorities from day one because she knows the intricacies of the department’s budget, programs and global operations better than anyone.”

In the mid-80s, Fox worked as a civilian employee of the Center for Naval Analyses, a Navy think tank, according to a People magazine profile written during the film’s production. Her job was to help the U.S. Navy develop tactics for defending aircraft carriers, and she instructed some of the young hot-shot pilots who would swoon at the sight of the six-foot blonde in high heels, People reported.

“She’s the smartest woman I’ve ever met,” Capt. Monroe Smith told the magazine. “I like women for a lot of things, and being smart isn’t usually one of them.”

When the film’s producers were looking to enhance the role of the female lead – who predictably becomes romantically involved with Cruise’s character – they looked to Fox, People reported. But that’s where the similarities ended, as Fox told the magazine she never became involved with an aviator.

Fox eventually became president of the CNA, where she oversaw analysis of operations, including Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following the Sept. 11 attacks, according to her Department of Defense biography. Prior to her latest appointment, Fox had served as the director of the Defense Department’s cost assessment and program evaluation since 2009.

Fox told People magazine in 1985, as the movie was in production, that she herself wasn't a fighter pilot but that she worked closely with them as a specialist in air and maritime defense.

"I don't know anything about flying airplanes, but I know a lot about the guy in the back seat — his mission, his radar and his missiles,"



she said at the time.
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Old 12-04-2013, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Did she really?
No, if he's talking about Theresa Wise, he's just pulling your chain. She's still the SVP of IT.
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Old 12-04-2013, 06:05 PM
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Greatest gif ever 80.
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Old 12-04-2013, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by iaflyer
No, if he's talking about Theresa Wise, he's just pulling your chain. She's still the SVP of IT.
Well it would be believable.
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Old 12-04-2013, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44
If he's on the 88, every single day is capped. PCS is officially worthless and long call is non-existent.
That can't be true. johnso29 told me the company is overmanned, and that it wasn't using efficiency givebacks in C12 to its advantage.

and we all know johnso29 is never wrong.
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Old 12-04-2013, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank
That can't be true. johnso29 told me the company is overmanned, and that it wasn't using efficiency givebacks in C12 to its advantage.

and we all know johnso29 is never wrong.
He is spoiled on the NYC7ER resv gig. He needs to come try some ATL88 resv. We should swap, I'm senior to him.
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Old 12-04-2013, 07:15 PM
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