Flight Scheduling

[myaircraft]

Aircraft Club for Pilot Communities and Aircraft Club Scheduling.

 

[HAL Pilot]

Schedule your own aircraft spammer, we have an Operations Department that handles it......

 

[A4sForever]

One of our schedulers down @ Big Idiot had the last name of "Hurt" ... this was before the days of computer generated SKEDS ...

He lived up to his name every friggin' month ...

 

[Flugelman]

Heh... I wrote the flight schedule/watch list as the Ops Chief for a twelve crew/nine aircraft VP back before the advent of any kind of personal computer. It was a ball buster and between myself and the Maintenance Chief we usually had a final copy done and signed by the Ops O by 6 pm. I had little patience for the "My Wife She/My Dog It" whiners but would make allowances when really needed. I had a good Ops O who backed me up and a good Maint Chief who understood needing certain crew quals on a particular flight. All in all a very satisfying job.

 

[BACONATOR]

Heh... I wrote the flight schedule/watch list as the Ops Chief for a twelve crew/nine aircraft VP back before the advent of any kind of personal computer. It was a ball buster and between myself and the Maintenance Chief we usually had a final copy done and signed by the Ops O by 6 pm. I had little patience for the "My Wife She/My Dog It" whiners but would make allowances when really needed. I had a good Ops O who backed me up and a good Maint Chief who understood needing certain crew quals on a particular flight. All in all a very satisfying job.

Damn, good on ya! When I was a skeds-O, our skipper would drop by at noon going "where's the sked, gents?" .... "Skipper, we COULD have the sked to you by noon every day, but we'd have about 5 pen and ink changes for you by 5pm".

 

[wink]

Damn, good on ya! When I was a skeds-O, our skipper would drop by at noon going "where's the sked, gents?" .... "Skipper, we COULD have the sked to you by noon every day, but we'd have about 5 pen and ink changes for you by 5pm".

I wrote the sked on a CV and strike ops would make changes up to 1800 or 1900. Some nights, much later. Then, after covering the bases in my own squadron I was lucky to have the thing to the CO by 2000. Some nights I woke him up at 2300. I would go weeks without seeing a Ready Room movie.

 

[Jim123]

I wrote the sked on a CV and strike ops would make changes up to 1800 or 1900. Some nights, much later. Then, after covering the bases in my own squadron I was lucky to have the thing to the CO by 2000. Some nights I woke him up at 2300. I would go weeks without seeing a Ready Room movie.

It was even more fun staying up late at night on a small boy waiting for the ATO message to come out and make sure that my detachment schedule wasn't completely F'ed up. It got better once I got better at betting how well the next day's ATO would match my 24-72hr requests/predictions/random-ass-guesses sent in the previous morning... and then get a reasonable schedule/shot in the dark/house of cards signed by evening chow and the ops-intel brief... or something like that.

And the det OIC and the shoe CO/XO were usually supportive (on this point anyway).