Piedmont Pilots - final awards

[PA31Ho]

what do RRP and RDD mean?

 

[Dash8]

reserve days

 

[PA31Ho]

right, but what is the diff between rrp and rdd because obviously they can't keep me on reserve for 14 days in a row...

 

[Dash8]

wanna bet? lol
not sure the difference, never sat reserve at pdt, do you have your contract yet? it might be in there some where, i'll look to see if i can find out in the mean time

 

[bizzum]

RRP is your reserve days.....RDD are you golden days, or your 4 days off a month when you cannot be jr manned etc.

 

[Dash8]

what bizzum said

 

[PA31Ho]

ahh gotcha... thanks! I called scheduling yesterday to tell them that I was willing to fly if they needed me and they told me well we can't do that because that would put me over the 6 day limit without an off day... so that's where I got that from.

 

[Dash8]

dude, are you serious? calling and saying yoru willing to fly? lol oooh, to be young and impetious again...

soon enough you'll be seing that 410 number come up on caller id, and silencing the ringer

 

[WSurf]

Omg, Yea.... To be eager and wanting to fly! man I remember those days. It will just take that one mistake of answering that phone on your day off with plans!
See if your as willing in 8-12 months my young grasshopper!!!

Anyway, Congrats on the job! Not a bad place to work, and you'll make more money then most your first year.

 

[PA31Ho]

well the reason i called is because i haven't flown in 10 days... i've flown once since soe... i have 800 hours and want to build time... there will be a time (not far from now probably) when I will be silencing that ringer, but not now

 

[AirCanon04]

and then hate life your second....third....fourth....fifth...then maybe upgrade...hahah

 

[Dash8]

i have 800 hours and want to build time...

why? planning on goin somewhere?
lol, building time pretty much means all of squat nowadays, with so many thousands of mainline guys on the street it will be a very, very long time before many of us see anything other than a regional (as far as 121 goes)

 

[PA31Ho]

I've got places to go once I get about 1700... it's all about who you know

 

[AirCanon04]

Where did they base you and the rest of your class at?

 

[Dash8]

mesa? scabublic? fauxjets?

don't keep us in suspense son, we're old, can't take the strain lol

on a serious note, you realize it will take over a year most likely to build up that time, closer to 1.5 i would imagine, this job still going to be there then?

 

[PA31Ho]

well there were only 4 people in my class.. one guy failed systems, the other guy was a previous captain who was coming back from medical leave. i am based at newbern but they are letting me sit in CLT since I live here and the other is in ROA

 

[Dash8]

they're letting you sit reserve in clt? curious, never heard of them doing that...

 

[PA31Ho]

yea, quite nice if you ask me... they said as long as I call up a few days in advance of when my reserve days start, they can tell me if I can sit in CLT... they said they can get me somewhere just as easier (if not easier) from CLT (since I live there)... fine with me

 

[Dash8]

lucky you, don't get used to it though, that sounds highly irregular for them, but hey enjoy it while you can

one thing, no matter what, no matter what they say/beg/promise, don't EVER, and i mean EVER tell them you'll be at the airport less than an hour from when they called you, even if you can get there, or do get there, don't ever tell them that you can, thats one of the most important contract parts for reserves and they'll try to sweettalk you in to showing up as soon as you can, which from your side will always be "i'll be there in an hour" capise?

sorry, didn't mean to sound like i was comin down on ya, just givin ya some hopefully helpful info

 

[PA31Ho]

i'll keep that in mind.. so if i tell them that i'll be there in 20 minutes, then they'll hold me to that and i'll get in trouble if i sign in in an hour? pretty crappy of that