Interested to know if Ironbutt flys a full months line roster for several years or has retired hurt into the simulator feather bed....that is what used to happen when seniors could not hack the line flying in my time their....refreshed they then got a job eastwards.
Gf has been running short of at least 11 crews to make a legal roster to my knowledge since 1977..Gf rosters are dependent on pilots selling leave/working on rest days/and extending duty/and reduceing rests to help out....
We swallowed this sob story and cooperated for 25plus years and still it is a mess for you guys...things did not get better.
I hope you do not enjoy your Rad Gammage moment and treatment which will follow...a serious health event is the sure result of this abuse.
If I had my time over again at GF I would never fly on my days off and work the roster to the selfish max like the As are said to now do...they are smart..best command decision I ever made was not to sell leave it probably saved my life when my rostering heart attack arrived...just enough energy remained in my tank to survive. I joined on the same day as Rad we both worked our butts off...he hung around a few more years than me and paid a higher price.
If you ask a cardio doctor like I did in 1988 to look at your GF roster he will tell you to retire at 40 if you want to make 70+
Your rosters today are considerably more intense than Rads and mine were.
Glad to read Ironbutt has made it into the sim for a well earned rest and does not fly on his days off...he is smarter than we were.
Last edited by 40&80; 25th September 2008 at 08:53.