Feb Roster
 

Well it arrived on time and I actually managed to access it via the intranet without it crashing. That is as good as it got as I have never in 6 years seen such an appalling roster. 10 G days 4 PX sectors and a grand total of 78 hours. Maybe it was just me I thought :ooh: , no checked the master roster of Hong Kong based 400 crew and on average those without leave are between 10-13 G days!!!

Apologies for rant but needed to let off steam as the mrs is currently out and the cat is hiding behind the sofa!!! I better enjoy the two WHOLE weeks of leave I have had approved.

The Cav:cool:

Until they cancel your leave. A few guys have had theirs withdrawn already. And the leave year hasn't started yet. I wonder when enough will be enough?

Rostered 89 hours.
9 G days.
One of the crappiest I've ever seen.

Hands up anyone who thinks it is going to get better?

:yuk:

Everyone going sick on one random trip would sort them.
Sadly, that cohesiveness is lacking in Hong Kong crew

20 days off, 81 credit hours. Stop yer whingin....

Blogs,

Judging by your username ( yobbo's can never finish a proper name / city name / meal name / car name etc etc, without ending it in "sey" / "sy")
and completely ignoring your location, Im gonna bite and take a stab at the fact that you just might be based, or a commuter, and not just temporarily in "Aus"

Either way, I'm thrilled to know that we, as HK based crew, can give you our completely unnecessary g days so that you can enjoy your 3-time / mo "up and back", 81 credit hrs, and 21 g days.

Enjoy that double taxation!!!

oooops....20 G days.

I have no idea how you manage!!!

Melbourne based, 10G days for 85 credit hours. Its not all roses on the base either. Cough.

I'm sorry, did I say 20 G's?

Divide and conquer
 

Nice one, yi gung chek gei yuk

keep facilitating that divide/conquer, us/them mentality. You play so well into management hands...why don't you get your sweaty hands away from the keyboard, grab an nice cold one and chill?
Jeez, some of you guys are holding on too tight. So the guy got a great roster - be happy for him!
Ooops, beer calling..... :)

Mine is not a roster. it is rather a death sentence.
Let's enjoy the video at least.

Good Video. :ok:

Dirty Lungs is spot on.

A bad roster is definetely not the result of somebody else having a better one.

I find it quite irritating, to see more and more guys accusing fellow pilots of beeing responsible for what is in reality the result of CX management.

RA65, A/B/C scale, basings, DFO/SFO entry, etc etc.

We need to concentrate and bundle our energy. However frustrating it might be at times, our ONLY chance is to stay united, and the best way is still a membership in the AOL. Amen.

Sweet Video! looks like Avianca in Columbia.

Filmed at Rio de Janeiro's Galeao, several of the city's beaches, including Copacabana and Ipanema, as well as Sugarloaf Mountain (Pao de Acucar) and the huge Jesus on the hill (Christo Redentor) are all visible.

Negative. More like TAM in SBRJ, Rio's Santos Dumont. There are also some shots of Conghonas as well.

Then again, it could be Avianca Brazil. They also operate some buses and they look just like Avianca's but with a brazilian flag on the tail.

Anyways, a bit of thread drift here. :O

Avianca it is. The cup in the cup holder says it all.

Nothing's going to change until freighters start sitting on the ramp in outports for 24+ hours due to lack of crew. :hmm:

Santos Dumont and Sao Paulo Conhonguas. But what's he doing with that stick? I was told you should treat the side stick like your mate's dick - touch it as little as possible. He handling it like it was his own!

LOL :DJ:ok:

Dan,

Thank goodness you brought that up: I thought it was just me...

Maybe in a typhoon on 25L, but on that lovely day?! And what about the armrest - his elbow is in the air most of the time!

For those who prefer a yoke

This guy must like his mug on YouTube. A320 he likes to stir the pot. F100 he doesn’t like to de-rotate.

Confused
 

Please don't think I'm taking the Mick or playing Devils Advocate, I'm not. Going back to the point, someone gave the statistic 10-13 G days average for HKG 400 driver - My question....Is that bad??

No, 10-13 G is not bad. What is usually bad is the duties in between the G days.

Nth American freighter patterns for HK based crew may as well read as a line of reserve. They know the day they are leaving, and that's about it. Their rostered return flight is usually followed by O days, so their return date is not even a sure thing.

Despite this being my 2nd Pruning, I'm aware of the NA patterns, life of HKG crews etc. My question, now somewhat more specific is: against what current yardstick do WE think this is bad?

The passenger fleet, before there was integrated flying of both.

Agreed Bob, but ... "Current Yardstick" ... Honestly Fellas 10/10 for anyone optimistic enough to think we can go back to the way many things used to be, and maybe the outflow venting seen on these pages is a cathartic experience for some; however, when my last medical ended up in a long discussion with the Doc about how they should best advise the younger guys coming in who are so angry and stressed then you have to wonder whether we should look outwards not inwards and realize we're just not that badly off?
Okay - taking cover now. :O

bc,

Did you forget, "freighters are rostered exactly the same as passenger pilots". It's just the disruptions and 12 day patterns that are different.

How can they even say that and keep a straight face?

I'm shocked that you're even surprised at their sheer contempt cxorcist.

Yes, any commonality between the published roster and the real time roster at the end of the month is purely coincidential, on the freighter.