FLOPS Overtime

[Voice Of Reason]

Funny way of thinking these new Flops Mgt types have...
I think they are dellusional enough to think that since no one would take overtime, and 2.5x pay didn't work, that a pay CUT would force pilots to work overtime/on days off.

I see it completely differently. Why work MORE to ultimately end up with the same (or less) pay you WOULD HAVE ALREADY been making before the domicile pay cuts given to some?... (And the benefits, and the vacation perdiem, etc).

Life will go on just fine, but I certainly don't see helping the dellusional think their plan is working, that's for sure. NO ONE is THAT desperate for pay, and NO ONE's pay (those who had cut or those who didn't) will increase if people choose the very short-sighted thinking that overtime will help their pay.

 

[learflyer]

There are some loser shmucks that work like 30 days in a row. You guys are losers. You know who you are.

 

[Heavy Set]

There are some loser shmucks that work like 30 days in a row. You guys are losers. You know who you are.

Maybe they just really love to fly!!!!! Can't get enough of the Beechjunk...

 

[Voice Of Reason]

Maybe they just really love to fly!!!!! Can't get enough of the Beechjunk...

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Hey "Heavy Set"...What do you fly right now? You're not one of those "formers" are you? There's nothing more sad than someone who has to refer to himself as a "former" this or that...while they do nothing or fly some local yokel charter gig that they feel they are above, while bashing others... I hope you're not like that....

 

[jumppilot]

Wow Voice of Reason. You're wierd.

 

[matchthehatch]

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[CRJ Driver]

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Hey "Heavy Set"...What do you fly right now? You're not one of those "formers" are you? There's nothing more sad than someone who has to refer to himself as a "former" this or that...while they do nothing or fly some local yokel charter gig that they feel they are above, while bashing others... I hope you're not like that....

Heavy Set is "Not" a pilot, he's what you call a wannabe pilot. If you read his posts, he will ask questions like, whats it like to fly the Citation X, or B727, or how many seats are on the upper deck of the B747 etc...... and also, STUPID posts like, maybe UAL is wet leasing that plane for the day. And questions about airline sked's. If he was a 121 pilot he would not post questions like that. It's very apparent his knowledge comes from books and magazines.

 

[FracCapt]

There are some loser shmucks that work like 30 days in a row. You guys are losers. You know who you are.

Still guys doing that?! Last time I heard about that was a couple years ago.

Just....say....no....

 

[minimums]

$100 g's + in overtime

Still guys doing that?! Last time I heard about that was a couple years ago.

Just....say....no....

I remember about 5 years ago when I was a newbie. There was a beechjet captain that was bragging about making over 100 g's here. I was amazed to say the least.

He told me that he worked so much overtime, that his wife bought him new luggage for Christmas, that way, he could carry more clean clothes with him and wouldn't have the need to do laundry as much on the road.

Is that INSANITY or what? Thing is, his wife had a great job, he had a side business and he had no real need to work this much overtime.

Draw your own conclusions. I don't know if he is here anymore or not.

 

[WrknStff]

Don't know about him, but there are still guys out there regularly doing 9 or 10 day rotations. Needless to say, they are the golden boys of management. They just loooovvveee those kind of pilots. Makes it easy for them to get away with being understaffed.

 

[Ihaveflown]

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Hey "Heavy Set"...What do you fly right now? You're not one of those "formers" are you? There's nothing more sad than someone who has to refer to himself as a "former" this or that...while they do nothing or fly some local yokel charter gig that they feel they are above, while bashing others... I hope you're not like that....

Who's doing the bashing here?

 

[flyr4hire]

Not just golden boys...

In the good ol' bad ol' days, there were a couple guys I knew that stayed on the road for extended times, but I don't believe that happens anymore. Also back then, scheduling only offered OT to "their buds"... defined as guys who didn't squawk too much when day 8 airlines sucked, or would exceed the duty times, or whatever. Its not like that now from what I've seen.

Now the company counts on CPTs working OT rather than to actually hire/upgrade the pilots needed to meet demand (or to actually develop a proactive approach to management). I always said no to OT... why would I want to cut my own throat (since I was an FO) and it doesn't pay that much for a small cabin FO either. Virtually all of my CPT buds do it though, 2 or 3 days a tour if they want it... I don't think any CPT in the beechjet would ever be denied OT. So the CPTs help "fill the gap" by working OT, and the company helps to "fill the gap" by leasing extra aircraft (like 5 Beechjets this holiday season). AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS, as the gap gets wider as more guys FINALLY get tired of working a 9/6 or 10/5?!!? Well then, the duty days get longer for everyone, and there are less vacations grated, and upgrades all but stop, management limits how much of your reserve (sick) time you can take in a year (since more people have to use reserve time to get time off), per diem rules change, and the seniority list starts getting smaller from the bottom up as FOs begin jumping ship (in the light of slow/no upgrades, limited domiciles, training contracts, and because the future looks so bleak in gereral). Pilot attitudes start turning negative, there is renewed talk of union representation, and so on and so forth. There is a silver lining however, those CPTs that work the OT add a few extra bucks to their bottom line.

No more for me, I've gone elsewhere.

 

[Diesel]

What perdiem rules changed on you? How much you get now or what?

 

[WrknStff]

We used to get per diem regardless of whether you were at work or not. Now because of some mumbo jumbo bs about our taxes and liability they have reversed that and are taking away the perdiem for vacation days or sick days. Seems that if it was a tax problem it would have come up long before now. More likely than not it was just an easy way for them to screw the pilots and give a pay cut that with some semi-plausible crap about it being for our good. If they really were looking out for us, they would raise the remaining per diem just enough that no one would lose a penny for the days they were taking away. That would totally get around any so-called tax issues and everyone would be making the same amount. Pretty easy, but instead it's a pretty obvious ploy to help the bean counters bottom line by f-in the pilots once again.

 

[XShipRider]

Scheduling and OT at FLOPs

To quote a previous post: "Also back then, scheduling only offered OT to "their buds"... defined as guys who didn't squawk too much when day 8 airlines sucked, or would exceed the duty times, or whatever. Its not like that now from what I've seen."

I can give you some insight on how Scheduling picked OT candidates (first hand knowledge, you might say). No names or initials of FLOPs schedulers will be used since it's not necessary for our purposes.

There were indeed schedulers who would offer OT, needed or not, to their "buds." I was not one of them and when I caught that I would put the kibosh on it post haste. One scheduler in particular would offer OT at the beginning of the duty line without knowing whether OT would be needed at the end of the line or not. This often resulted in my taking over a board with PICs and SICs sitting at home while some PIC was drawing several days of OT to cover a "...hole in the schedule." In the words of Colonel Sherman Potter, "Horse hockey." I would immediately send this person home.

I can tell you this, OT was offered to the same pilots over and over again because these people would make themselves available for the days needed (often days in the middle of their normal days off). This led to the perception that OT was ONLY offered to these people. Not true. Quite often OT would be offered to both the PIC and SIC to cover a particular trip or because day 8 airlines would put them over on duty time (proving some of your assertion correct). Under these conditions there was absolutely no favoritism, just schedulers trying to cover a trip or full day.

Some of the pilots (keyword: SOME) would offer OT when they needed it to pay for a vacation, holiday, bills, house, etc., and it wouldn't be offered to them. Why? Most of the time they were "out of position" for the plane needing coverage (e.g. sitting in MCC, plane in TEB). This would have had that person airlining West to East (an all day venture as most of you know) and essentially useless for the OT day.

Another scenario: West Coast DOM pilots would offer OT if they could "...stay out West." Deal. Yeah, right! Like the scheduler could ensure the owners would stay out West. This one is almost funny.

Day 8... the biggie in just about everyone's eyes. Deal: Fly all day on day 8 for first airlines out on day 9. Okay. Deal broken by 3rd shift... rotten b#@tards! Analysis: 95% of the time the day shift scheduler did not make the 3rd shift scheduler aware of any deal. There was no note in the grid and no mention in any pass down media. This not only hosed the crew it hosed 3rd shift. Bring in the big guns 'cause someone is getting their arse chewed by the PM. I admit this happened all too often and led many crews to opt out of the "Let's Make a Deal" biz. One can't blame the crews for not playing along on this one. Burn me once shame on you, burn me twice shame on me.

None of this is a slam on the pilots. You have to put yourself in the OCC for a few days to see how the whole mess works (sic). There are so many scenarios they are too numerous to author here. But it sounds like the thinking in the OCC has changed and OT is now only offered when absolutely necessary. No longer working there I can't tell you for sure.