ghostrider64
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Propaganda is well under way...From both sides...
I've heard a beautiful explanation of Netjets business structure...Imagine several different smoke stacks built vertically....Now imagine each one of those stacks represents a different department...now imagine that there are no connections between the different structures....This my friends is the major flaw in scheduling et al and the entire operation...There is no way someone from flight ops that may see something that will make the day go by smoother and more efficiently can relay that info to scheduling and be assured they will use the info...
ie each section is only accountable to itself...no checks and balances there...
The one recurring scheduling flaw that irks me is you arrive late at night and see 2 or 3 similar aircraft that are flyable and crewed...then after a 10 hour turn you return to the airport and see those aircraft still parked there...IE you get min rest when the load could have been shared more evenly...But as I said above, we have no input into scheduling at all...
I say all of this knowing that schedulers aren't intentionally scheduling poorly...they are busy as hell...but they aren't good about listening to concerns or suggestions from the end users of their briefs...ie the pilots....and like it or not the crews are the ones that should have direct input as they see the problems early in the day....
I've heard a beautiful explanation of Netjets business structure...Imagine several different smoke stacks built vertically....Now imagine each one of those stacks represents a different department...now imagine that there are no connections between the different structures....This my friends is the major flaw in scheduling et al and the entire operation...There is no way someone from flight ops that may see something that will make the day go by smoother and more efficiently can relay that info to scheduling and be assured they will use the info...
ie each section is only accountable to itself...no checks and balances there...
The one recurring scheduling flaw that irks me is you arrive late at night and see 2 or 3 similar aircraft that are flyable and crewed...then after a 10 hour turn you return to the airport and see those aircraft still parked there...IE you get min rest when the load could have been shared more evenly...But as I said above, we have no input into scheduling at all...
I say all of this knowing that schedulers aren't intentionally scheduling poorly...they are busy as hell...but they aren't good about listening to concerns or suggestions from the end users of their briefs...ie the pilots....and like it or not the crews are the ones that should have direct input as they see the problems early in the day....