Here's the deal on the sched. You have one chance to drop trips on the big pick, as after that there is very little chance of dropping due to no coverage. With PBS you can preference a target range of hours you want to fly between 65 (Min guar) and 95 (LCO cap). As senior people bid low time, remaining time slides downhill, until at some level PBS gives everyone 95 hours. It looks like about halfway down (on the guppy) is where the humane level of flying stops. There is no rig, and no minimum daily credit. The last three months I have lost an east coast turn, which is just 5hours pay out of my pocket. Strategies seem to be: fly 65 hour if you're senior and can afford to, thus making everything pay protected by being at min guarantee, or fly 95 and hope to have 80+ left at the end of the month. The 10 hour four days are out there, but there are lots of efficient trips also. Reserves do lots of the low time crap that comes up from IROPS. Basically, I would have never applied for this job, but it is what it is.
