CFI2766
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Scenario: I'm scheduled to go on reserve at 0800 local. At 0700 local, while still peacefully asleep, my phone rings. I answer, it's crew scheduling. I'm being called for a flight with a show time at 0900.
If I had not answered my phone at 0700, since I was not yet on reserve at that time, would I have received an occurence? Once I answered the phone, though, did the two hour mandatory report time start right then, or, at the beginning of my scheduled reserve time of 0800?
Second question: I've now hauled a$$ through Atlanta morning rush hour traffic, well, relatively speaking, and find myself in the parking lot at 0830 waiting for a bus. It was 0845 before the bus finally showed up. I call crew scheduling and inform them that I'm on the friggin' bus on the way in. I ask very politely if they could duty me in, as the time will be very tight for my 0900 duty in. I'm told that if I don't duty in before 0900, it will be a late duty in, I'll get an occurence, and they will have to call another FO. They hang up on me.
Little Enos Burdette (the bus driver) [Smokey and the Bandit reference] drops me off under 'D' and I sprint to the Badda Bing. I shoo a ramper off of - I'm not kidding here- a website advertising used Cadillacs. I duty in at 0859:55. Five whole seconds to spare according to the clock on the computer.
Couldn't the mis-aligned chromosome in Scheduling have dutied me in based off of my phone call? I mean, I was in the parking lot a half hour before my scheduled duty in. WTF?
If I had not answered my phone at 0700, since I was not yet on reserve at that time, would I have received an occurence? Once I answered the phone, though, did the two hour mandatory report time start right then, or, at the beginning of my scheduled reserve time of 0800?
Second question: I've now hauled a$$ through Atlanta morning rush hour traffic, well, relatively speaking, and find myself in the parking lot at 0830 waiting for a bus. It was 0845 before the bus finally showed up. I call crew scheduling and inform them that I'm on the friggin' bus on the way in. I ask very politely if they could duty me in, as the time will be very tight for my 0900 duty in. I'm told that if I don't duty in before 0900, it will be a late duty in, I'll get an occurence, and they will have to call another FO. They hang up on me.
Little Enos Burdette (the bus driver) [Smokey and the Bandit reference] drops me off under 'D' and I sprint to the Badda Bing. I shoo a ramper off of - I'm not kidding here- a website advertising used Cadillacs. I duty in at 0859:55. Five whole seconds to spare according to the clock on the computer.
Couldn't the mis-aligned chromosome in Scheduling have dutied me in based off of my phone call? I mean, I was in the parking lot a half hour before my scheduled duty in. WTF?