Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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Lol. I got stuck with a 4 day greenslip that I didn't want once. Have to be careful slipping. Want what you bid. I'm a lot more careful with pcs these days.
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So we gave them 10AM.
The memo did impose the unilateral elimination of the 3 hours prior acknowledgement, which was the fulcrum of this issue since that didn't mesh with the 10 hours prospective rest. But 5am went to noon and we gave them a concession back to 10am to fund other things when we had noon locked down.
Noon would have been great but 1000 on the first day is still pretty good.
Remember the NLT than noon was tied to a 2 hour long call response which many reserve Pilots were rightfully outraged about.
So we agreed to a 3 hour leash.
Lets see the details, read them calmly, study them.............................................. .............and then burn the house down!
Scoop
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FO was on his 2nd of 3 consecutive CDOs. He mentioned they wipe him out....didn't remember driving home that morning.
(verb – present participle) The act of experiencing the summit of a crusty turd protruding from your sphincter (a turtle head); to really need a crap. Also known as touching cloth.
Onlooker: "Why are you walking so strangely?"
Protagonist: "I'm turtle-heading, if I don't find a toilet soon I'm going to purge all over my pants."
Magic Carpet Ride
To line the bowl of an airplane lavatory with TP so as to reduce the chance of leaving difficult to remove and incriminating fecal skid marks that are produced in a vacuum extraction flushing method.
"It might be smart to employ the magic carpet ride so that if the hot Milf in 2B is waiting to use this porta potty in the sky, I don't look like a tool."
Are you guys getting this? This is typical. For every one guy who gushes about how great CDO's are (because he gets to be home all day, every day and has convinced himself he doesn't need that much sleep), there are 100 with stories just like this one. This is one of the worst safety issues I've seen in my career... and it's being thrust upon us by the people who are supposed to be representing us and have as their motto, "schedule with safety." UNSAT.
Are you guys getting this? This is typical. For every one guy who gushes about how great CDO's are (because he gets to be home all day, every day and has convinced himself he doesn't need that much sleep), there are 100 with stories just like this one. This is one of the worst safety issues I've seen in my career... and it's being thrust upon us by the people who are supposed to be representing us and have as their motto, "schedule with safety." UNSAT.
The "schedule with safety" moniker is lost on me with this one too....
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So, let me get this straight. You have 18 days on call, but 4 half-days don't count. So, you're really only available to fly a total of 16 days. Fair enough - then I think local guys should get a reserve guarantee 10% higher than commuters, and I'll be glad to be available 10% more!
And since I haven't read Section 23 in a while, do you guys get 12 hours at the end of each block of days to get back home too?
And since I haven't read Section 23 in a while, do you guys get 12 hours at the end of each block of days to get back home too?
Perhaps there is room in there to find bargaining credits to apply to more deserving local pilots though. I'd actually almost second that resolution just to see it play out.
Since your active contempt for commuters is clouding your creative math in counting days off, let's just go nuts with it, shall we:
We have very, very few reports at 1am. Or 2am. Or 3 am. Or 4am. So the vast majority of reserves and line holders always start off with a quarter day off almost every day. With 4 blocks of work per month, that's an extra day off! I wonder if the company knows this? If we agree with this interpretation, we can reduce min days off by one for almost every pilot and still be in compliance with the contract! Don't want those pesky pilots getting free days off now, do we?
Then, since most release times occur at or before 8PM, that's another quarter day off per trip/reserve period. So we can reduce days off by 2 for most pilots. In fact, let's take every hour prior to report on day one, and every hour after release on the last day, and add up those total hours then divide that by 24 and that is the amount of extra work days we owe the company.
You still serious about this Shirley?
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It's not a proffer, but it's not yours unless you acknowledge. If you acknowledged via I crew or answer a call from Scheds it will be yours. If you do nothing- even though they may call/CNO you a bunch, they will eventually take it off your line. Most Scheds only leave it on your line a few minutes, but lately have had a few that leave it awhile.
MEC Alert just came out:
The MEC will meet in special session May 21-May 22, beginning at 9AM each day, to consider LOA 14-01 concerning FAR 117 and changes to the Pilot Working Agreement.
The meeting will take place at the airport Marriott in Atlanta, 4711 Best Road, College Park, GA 30337.
The MEC will conduct the meeting in open session, and pilots are encouraged to attend.
Special MEC Meeting
The MEC will meet in special session May 21-May 22, beginning at 9AM each day, to consider LOA 14-01 concerning FAR 117 and changes to the Pilot Working Agreement.
The meeting will take place at the airport Marriott in Atlanta, 4711 Best Road, College Park, GA 30337.
The MEC will conduct the meeting in open session, and pilots are encouraged to attend.
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