Continuous Duty Overnights. Your thoughts?

[kellwolf]

If they would DH me in the night before, it would be cool. But, that would cost $$$ for a hotel room. As it is, I have a 7:40 report time for a DH to DTW, then I have to get back to sleep for a 21:10 flight to DAY. Return, and repeat (but sub BMG for DAY).

I'm with Doug. If I could see it coming, then I could work something out to where I could try to get sleep rhythms back N'sync. Yet one more reason I can't wait to at least hold a build up in instead of this reserve stuff....

[TheShortOne]

well, if you want to grab some dinner before your flight to DAY or BMG - let me know!

[blee256]

Originally Posted by kellwolf

Ain't no love in this relationship b/w me and scheduling. BTW, guess who just found out he's being DHed to DTW for more CDOs next week?

I love scheduling, seriously. For sept, I put in like 4-5 requests they granted them all, except for one because someone beat me to some open time. But I got an extra day off and about 8 more hours of credit for the month. and most of the weekends off. woo hooo...................you need to hold a line. its gets better........maybe i should bid down the MEM..haha

[wheelsup]

Originally Posted by kellwolf

My reserve time is 7 am-7 pm, yet I often get called at 8 am, told "you're released for rest, so you can do this CDO in DTW tonight." Great, now I have to shift gears. I can a) stay up until my DH flight from MEM-DTW leave, then fly the CDO, get 3-4 hours of sleep, then fly back to DTW from wherever or b) attempt to go BACK to sleep for several hours, either one is gonna serious screw with sleep/awake patterns.

wow, just wow...

I agree, this is totally unsafe.

[kellwolf]

Originally Posted by blee256

I love scheduling, seriously. For sept, I put in like 4-5 requests they granted them all, except for one because someone beat me to some open time. But I got an extra day off and about 8 more hours of credit for the month. and most of the weekends off. woo hooo...................you need to hold a line. its gets better........maybe i should bid down the MEM..haha

Soon. hopefully. I moved up a few more spots since we turned in the Sept bids, so if they don't cut back the lines AGAIN in Oct, I might snag a build up line. That is, if MSP or DTW guys ahead of me don't come down here.