ASA Ready Reserve

[sunlitpath]

Good post, Twott Driver. Many guys have been on reserve for so long they have forgotten the RRR assignment protocols. I am going to run copies of LOA 11, as it pertains to RRR and disperse it around the vampire crypt, also known as the crew lounge. Crewmembers on reserve must protect every shred of the meager work rules that pertain to them. Management doesn't care about reserve QOL. Very few line holders care about reserve QOL. Therefore, reserve crews shouldn't care much about them either. Protect yourself, your personal health, and your family life. Do not rush to flight assignments. Take time to eat your meals quietly. Write up all maintenance discrepancies thoroughly, as required by the FOM. You are tired; your aircraft must be safe. All cockpit lights should be working properly. Chart holder lights, map holder lights, center console floodlights, side panel floodlights, and all other lights should be fully working for night operations. The MELs for cockpit lighting require PIC and FO acceptance. Don't accept sub-standard flightdeck illumination. The following suggestions for reserve work rules are just a starting point for what we should see in a contract. If it means giving up improvements for line holder QOL, then so be it.

1) 13 days off minimum
2) Moving a day off = 3 hour pay override, over guarantee regardless of credit.
3) Ready reserve = 2 hour pay override, over guarantee regardless of credit.
4) Days off pro-rated chart section 12-D-2e should be the same for reserve as line holder.

Anything less than the above is unacceptable and insulting

 

[JumpersAway]

Good post, Twott Driver. Many guys have been on reserve for so long they have forgotten the RRR assignment protocols. I am going to run copies of LOA 11, as it pertains to RRR and disperse it around the vampire crypt, also known as the crew lounge. Crewmembers on reserve must protect every shred of the meager work rules that pertain to them. Management doesn't care about reserve QOL. Very few line holders care about reserve QOL. Therefore, reserve crews shouldn't care much about them either. Protect yourself, your personal health, and your family life. Do not rush to flight assignments. Take time to eat your meals quietly. Write up all maintenance discrepancies thoroughly, as required by the FOM. You are tired; your aircraft must be safe. All cockpit lights should be working properly. Chart holder lights, map holder lights, center console floodlights, side panel floodlights, and all other lights should be fully working for night operations. The MELs for cockpit lighting require PIC and FO acceptance. Don't accept sub-standard flightdeck illumination. The following suggestions for reserve work rules are just a starting point for what we should see in a contract. If it means giving up improvements for line holder QOL, then so be it.

1) 13 days off minimum
2) Moving a day off = 3 hour pay override, over guarantee regardless of credit.
3) Ready reserve = 2 hour pay override, over guarantee regardless of credit.
4) Days off pro-rated chart section 12-D-2e should be the same for reserve as line holder.

Anything less than the above is unacceptable and insulting

Agree with the above completely. Reserve section needs work. The reserves have been sacrificing to make things better for the line holders, and I'm tired of the lectures from the senior people that don't have a clue. If they don't back the reserve improvements, I've suddenly become in favor of dual qual.

 

[twott driver]

Scheduling has become VERY adversarial with pilots. Yet management continues to proclaim that it is quite the contrary.

I'm also getting automated notifications well into my rest period. When I called them on it and told them it was violating my rest period, they denied that it does such. On a trip, my cell phone is my alarm, and thus, whenever they activate an automated text notification, it beeps and wakes me up. How does this not violate rest requirements.

I've had them call at 4am, to inform me that I had a RRR reserve at 6am.......THE NEXT DAY!!!! When I chewed the scheduler out for doing it, their statement was "Well, you're on reserve now". That's great, except my wife has to work because regional pay is so crappy. Now she is up too, can't go back to sleep, and will now roll around awake until 8am when she gets up. Though they can, they ought to have enough common sense not to.

When it comes to crew scheduling- NOT ONE INCH am I willing to give those bastards. After years of being pro scheduling and busting hump, not anymore.

Create an email account on gmail or yahoo and send notifications to that. It won't accept SH's telephone number anymore unfortunately. Don't have to worry about it again after that. They will phone you with the change when they need to.

 

[Av8trix616]

yes, it's very sad that SH's number won't work anymore... and every time you try to delete the robo-dial number on ourasa, it just repopulates it. You have to put *some* number in there. I gave em the Rejection hotline number- Any of the numbers on this page should work:

http://www.rejectionline.com/copycat.html

Have a listen: http://www.rejectionline.com/listen.html

Yeah, I know no one is on the other line listening. But It makes me smile. Robo call vs Robo Answering service.

Create an email account on gmail or yahoo and send notifications to that. It won't accept SH's telephone number anymore unfortunately. Don't have to worry about it again after that. They will phone you with the change when they need to.

 

[Speedtape]

Agree with the above completely. Reserve section needs work. The reserves have been sacrificing to make things better for the line holders, and I'm tired of the lectures from the senior people that don't have a clue. If they don't back the reserve improvements, I've suddenly become in favor of dual qual.

Just curious, how long have you been here?

 

[PBRstreetgang]

They start pulling that crap when they get desperate...

Not really,
Uncle Rico's playbook, preamble. He gets scheduling to hate pilots even more than they already do, then he awards them "bag tags" and "RAVES" for the most creative shanking they can create.
Every time I read a post like this, I grimace and am glad that that evil little dwark is a whole continent away.

 

[Brasilia Pup]

yes, it's very sad that SH's number won't work anymore... and every time you try to delete the robo-dial number on ourasa, it just repopulates it. You have to put *some* number in there. I gave em the Rejection hotline number- Any of the numbers on this page should work:

http://www.rejectionline.com/copycat.html

Have a listen: http://www.rejectionline.com/listen.html

Yeah, I know no one is on the other line listening. But It makes me smile. Robo call vs Robo Answering service.

I've been using the Rejection Hotline ever since the robo calling began. I highly recommend this technique to anyone on reserve!! I get only so many text messages per month, and I don't want to waste my minutes listening to 20 voice mails that accumulate while I'm flying MTY-DTW. It makes scheduling forego their cigarette break and call me.

 

[asayankee]

I created a gmail account and all the endless "auto notification" messages go to an inbox that nobody ever looks at!

 

[Clutch]

It won't repopulate if you change the number to an email and then delete later.

The schedulers were using the auto-notify number to call me and I'm not on reserve.. That's BS.

 

[JumpersAway]

Just curious, how long have you been here?

Seven years...............and I'm starting to think it's 7 years too long.

 

[Clutch]

Seven years...............and I'm starting to think it's 7 years too long.

It took you 7 years to realize that?

 

[asayankee]

It won't repopulate if you change the number to an email and then delete later.

The schedulers were using the auto-notify number to call me and I'm not on reserve.. That's BS.

There has to be something in there, it can not be left blank....if you put in a junk email address it will stay as such. If you delete the email it will auto-populate with your phone number on record.

Just create a free account on gmail or hotmail. You never have to look at it or reply to these auto-notifications if you don't want to.

 

[Clutch]

There has to be something in there, it can not be left blank....if you put in a junk email address it will stay as such. If you delete the email it will auto-populate with your phone number on record.

Just create a free account on gmail or hotmail. You never have to look at it or reply to these auto-notifications if you don't want to.

Yeh, I see. If you're not on reserve you don't have to have a number on file.

You, my friend, have been on reserve so long, I don't know how you're still sane.

 

[asayankee]

Yeh, I see. If you're not on reserve you don't have to have a number on file.

You, my friend, have been on reserve so long, I don't know how you're still sane.

It's been much too long, haha. As for my sanity, there are definitely days where it's come under question! Serenity now... Serenity now

 

[Clutch]

It's been much too long, haha. As for my sanity, there are definitely days where it's come under question! Serenity now... Serenity now

Serinity now. Insanity later.