I think this will negatively impact fairness. Now the guy that just wants out can put in for all of the top facilities to beat out the person who would get the list to change and get selected for somewhere they actually want to go.
You can complain about fairness in other aspects, having greater transparency isn't one of them. This allows everyone to see where each facility is ranked and know the exact amount of people being selected. If eligible, it also allows people the ability to fly out, tour facilities, and network knowing they have a decent percentage chance of being looked at.
They do have as much right. But if someone only wants to go to the one facility where they're from, it's shitty that someone who really doesn't care where they go would possibly get selected instead.
I've flown to numerous facilities to tour, network, and verify I wanted to be there whether they were in the top 10 or not. Then if they surprise everyone in the top whatever, I'm covered.
...and how does that make you feel when they don't jump in the top 10 and others are selected over you?
Unfortunately we're all just going to have to accept that getting person X to the facility where they grew up will never out-prioritize staffing the NAS on a national level. If that doosh at your facility wants to pepper the top of the list and go to a place that the formula decides is more important than the facility next to your parents house then you're just going to have to hope they pass on him. Nobody's arguing that it doesn't suck for you. Of course it does. Especially when your getting passed over by all the CheckOutBidOut kids that you trained. I think the path you need to explore here is to try and get leadership on board with holding recent check-outs for X time. Still a long shot but your current position will absolutely never move the needle.
Given this debate got started over the definition of fairness. I believe it's fair that a level 8 CPC be selected over a level 5. It doesnt appear you're interested in fairness, it seems like you're interested in random chance in the hopes it benefits you.
Random FAA priority hasn't benefited me since NCEPT started, but I'm advocating for it because random FAA priority is imposed equally on all of us. Them sharing the list prior to the deadline means the higher your current level, the more NCEPT favors you. While that definitely may be deserved, it's not "fair".
Again, if you believe it's "unfair" when everyone will have an equal chance to submit an ERR and an equal knowledge of when and how many people each facility will select, I can't help you.
Agree with @breakaway2000. Not knowing what the priority and availability will be beforehand makes ERR submission a crap shoot. It's utterly rediculous and should have never been that way. I think we just had a short discussion about this in another thread a couple weeks ago.
What are you calling a mid-level?
Nothing defined really just not the obvious high level Tracon’s N90 etc.
I'm calling mid-level as 8-10. I know of a bunch of 5/6s that haven't released anyone.
I’ve seen the December numbers just curious where we stand now. Also wondering if this stagnation at lower to mid level facilities is an issue they are addressing? It might just be me but it seems the same facilities keep releasing while some just sit and wait with no end in sight
