Got my bid results for next month. I got the one line I didn’t want….the result of everyone senior to me (I am the most junior) bidding everything else. Kinda bummed. Going to be a rough month. A buddy of mine in another base got a hard line….and he’s junior to me. He commutes though. [...]

Assigned reserve at home yesterday. Standard call out. Called at 10:05AM for a 1:45PM sign in. Simple assignment. Ferry a plane to a maintenance base for scheduled maintenance. Sit around for 2 hours and then deadhead home arriving back in base by 6:40PM. Since it was such a short time I decided to princess park, [...]

Had a nice week of flying. Flew 11 hours over two days….just 4 legs. Thursday I was on reserve call out. I was called at 6:58AM for a 11:55AM sign in. A pilot called in sick (a buddy of mine from ATP no less) and I was called in to cover part of his trip. [...]

Sure enough we got the overnight. The entire crew was composed of reserves. Flight was scheduled to leave at 5:20PM. The inbound plane didn’t arrive until 5:15PM. As I setup my side of the plane I noticed something missing…the mike muff for my UFlyMike setup. Ugh. I thought I could get by without it. Nope. [...]

Sitting in the crew room. The Captain, Paul,  sitting ready with me is a guy I enjoy flying with. When I first started I held a line for 2 months (my base was overstaffed so senior pilots bid reserve and sat at home with full pay!). One of those months was with Paul. Paul is [...]

March starts with me going back to daily airport reserve as my line. I welcome this as I didn’t like being on reserve as THE junior man. Being the most junior I was up for any and all assignments. At first I welcomed a change from the monotony of airport reserve. That lasted until my [...]