Coming up on 94 hours of Standby for the Month.

[kman]

Cause, they will call up and check if your there. Or send a rep to find the crew. Also I heard of them call the hotel to make sure you checked out.

 

[clydefastly]

How do you get picked to sit stand by? Is it random, seniority, bad luck?

 

[flagshipper]

How do you get picked to sit stand by? Is it random, seniority, bad luck?

random. You could test all the theories you want but in the end it is random. Now if you are at a busy airport you have a better chance (TEB!!!)

 

[knowone]

the schedulers don't know where the hotel is in relationship to the FBO and the reason they don't sit people at the hotel when there is a good plane at the FBO is becuase back in the day some crews would take hours to get to the plane even though it say within 30 minutes

 

[NJACrewservicer]

the schedulers don't know where the hotel is in relationship to the FBO and the reason they don't sit people at the hotel when there is a good plane at the FBO is becuase back in the day some crews would take hours to get to the plane even though it say within 30 minutes

Exactly...and it's not just "back in the day". It still happens.

Also, you may see 3 or 4 hot spares in TEB. But, remember, we have different owners who require different aircraft. We are not un-neccesarily going to upgrade an Ultra owner to a Falcon because we didn't want more than 1 crew sitting on standby. The same goes for the Flacon owner who refuses to fly on an Ultra.


When you start seeing 3 or 4 XL's with nothing to do, than bring it to their attention.

 

[Diesel]

Oh please scheduling shows fbo stby so that the crew matrix looks stronger. Same with making a crew sit fbo stby in the morning and then airline them home on the last flight in the afternoon. Only to have that flight delayed and then have to pay out an aftermidnight, but thats from a different cookie jar so no big deal.

You can have a fleet of xl's sitting in TEB and scheduling will still say you're backing up a Ultra in LAX. Yeah its true.

A crew can be at the airport asap unfortunatly a couple of guys screw it up. You'll always have a percentage in every group. Sadly scheduling takes the easy way out and punishes everyone.

 

[NJACrewservicer]

Oh please scheduling shows fbo stby so that the crew matrix looks stronger. Same with making a crew sit fbo stby in the morning and then airline them home on the last flight in the afternoon. Only to have that flight delayed and then have to pay out an aftermidnight, but thats from a different cookie jar so no big deal.

You can have a fleet of xl's sitting in TEB and scheduling will still say you're backing up a Ultra in LAX. Yeah its true.

A crew can be at the airport asap unfortunatly a couple of guys screw it up. You'll always have a percentage in every group. Sadly scheduling takes the easy way out and punishes everyone.

Hey, where ya been... How's NJI treating you? Getting any Europe time in?

BTW, LMAO at your comments.

 

[Diesel]

The real question is do I get any domestic time? Nice to hear english every once and a while.

Say hi to the Fat Englishman. GO MAN U.

 

[kman]

103 for Aug

 

[tankerswede]

A crew can be at the airport asap unfortunatly a couple of guys screw it up. You'll always have a percentage in every group. Sadly scheduling takes the easy way out and punishes everyone.

Ah, the old "a few guys defecate in their trousers so we all have to wear diapers now" routine.:nuts: