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Just pray they develop a vaccine for BF-24
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SWA CA’s with less than 100 hours PIC are only restricted from flying “AIII mode” required HUD approaches. Essentially CAT III’s (and certain SA CAT II’s). Run-of-the-mill CAT II approaches are fair game. All FO’s leave the schoolhouse qualified to PM all approaches.
Doesn’t look like this would have been a factor on Rwy 4 at LGA.
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9 hours ago, StoleIt said:
Random question for the SWA folks: do you guys have a HUD or autoland?
HUD on CA side. No autoland. Cat II/III hand-flown below 1000ft AGL.
Haven’t heard the details on the LGA thing. Sounds like the FO was flying.
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On 2/3/2024 at 4:37 PM, xaarman said:
How’s life at SWA post contract ratification?
Magically, signing ours made a lot of the gripes go away.
Same at SWA. All of the "noise" suddenly became quiet. It's a good pay bump (especially for the FO's). Retro bonus pays out on 20 Feb.
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20 minutes ago, BFM this said:
“The FOs are really happy. The CAs are mostly happy except for the CAs with 3 ex-wives that think they need to be WB pay above $400 TFP ($456/hour) which is a dream at best.”
That checks. Thankfully a lot of folks are picking the TA apart on the SWAPA forum but I have yet to see a major sticking point that would cause this to be shot down.
One topic they're going back and forth over is whether the retro bonus payout will be hit with 1% union dues (in addition to all of the other stupid-high taxes). If that's a major sticking point on the forum, it's probably hardly being discussed on the line at all.
All-in-all it seems like it will pass. We definitely didn't maximize the leverage we have at the moment, but there are a bunch of QOL gains that could be lucrative to the pilots assuming scheduling doesn't change its penchant for doing whatever SkySolver tells it to do (which is partly why we ended up melting down... oooooh, about one year ago). And if they do modify their behavior, I guess there will be a a lot fewer reroutes, with which I am totally fine.
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Early-to-mid 2000's CAFB had some classic patches!
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I get the feeling there will be a certain ilk of people with zero shame who will take advantage of this like those pre-boarding in a wheelchair. But in the end, it's a lot harder to fake being fat than it is being disabled.
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Low Earth Orbit is the only feasible explanation as to where all my f’in 10mm have gone.
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Apparently they found it?
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5 hours ago, herkbum said:
Crossville is 40 mins from my house. Wish I knew someone that could track down more info.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appGo to the model train expo. “You will be glad that you did!”
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13 hours ago, brabus said:
Holy shit. That is an epic leadership failure at multiple levels. I hope he’s at a major, or about to be.
For sure. His priorities have shifted and he’ll be spending considerably more time at Delta for the next few years until retirement.
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On 8/17/2023 at 10:15 AM, SocialD said:
Update to an earlier post in this thread. It has been done, a great friend/squadron mate has successfully ROPMA'd to LTC without doing SOS or ACSC. It couldn't have happened to a better guy. Fucking legend!
Multiple guys in my Guard unit (myself included) have ROPMA'd without any ACSC. I did SOS in-res before separating from AD. Not sure on the other guys.
Meanwhile my Reservist buddy was recently passed over (clean record, WO, ACSC in correspondence). Two different worlds.
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So which flag do I post on my social media profile so as not to be canceled? I support $3B to whomever the underdog is.
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40 minutes ago, SocialD said:
Wait, were the people who didn't get the shot NOT supposed to be working over the last few years? You know, asking for a friend... Fuse, were you not allowed to drill/work? I know of one squadron would have had to cease operations if all their pilots who didn't vax weren't allowed to work. Either way, I hope you get your 50 points/good year. Best of luck!
That's correct. I was denied a medical exemption in the fall of 2021 (far too long of a story to detail here). A Dec '21 memo from the SecAF basically said no/pay no points and eventual invol assignment to the IRR for TRs/DSGs. So I did no Guard duty from Jan 2022 until just recently after the NDAA eliminated the mandate, thus missing out on that good year.
Religious exemptions, on the other hand, were slow-rolled and eventually a court injunction paused adverse actions against members with a RAR. They were allowed to continue drilling/flying. I was offered the option to pursue a religious exemption after my medical was denied, but I had my hill and was ready to die on it. I am in a fortunate enough position with my airline gig to be able to push back on all of this without losing much sleep.
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4 hours ago, Swizzle said:
Great question therein: for Reserves and ANG, are they getting full time/credit regardless of what they would’ve normally completed. In others words, full/AD time/pay for a TR who typically min-runs his time? If so, what a deal…
No words yet from the ANG yet. All I want are the back points for a good year so I can get off this sinking ship posthaste.
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Grate spell check in the very last sentence. I’d expect nothing less from the POS who shoved this mandate down our throats for the last year and a half.
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19 minutes ago, kaputt said:
I wonder if he still reads this thread?
Probably daily. As a narcissist would.
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10 hours ago, Duck said:
I think at SWA I am allowed to vote. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
I would be shocked if you weren’t while on MLOA. You’re still a member of SWAPA.
I was in newhire training during the 2015 TA1 and we were all allowed to vote. We had little clue what a turd it was at the time, but we were able to vote.
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The rumbling on this has been growing over the last week. It’s interesting to see both sides of the MSM picking up on it.
On a side note - it’s been one year to the day since I last put on the uniform because of this mandate (no pay/no points Guard guy). While I’m not holding my breath, it does appear some sanity may be returning to our overlords. -
Oh, please. He doesn’t need some shitty mil gig, and airline flying is for chumps. He was bought out long ago and will be taken care of.
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14 hours ago, cragspider said:
Well if you haven’t heard by now Delta just made the bonus obsolete completely. They have now expanded when they will hire us from active duty.
I’m guessing the rest of the airlines will be announcing similar plans soon.
To those about to bail, my advice is to decide where you want to live, then pick a company with a base there, or the one with the easiest commute.-
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Bird Flu
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Safe AND effective!