Sitting Reserve

[RJlifer]

Anyone else sitting reserve at the moment? I'm on day 2 and think I've just about OD'd on TV, Internet Message Boards, reading every piece of reading material I've got, jogging around in circles, etc. No real point to this post, just kinda bored. What channel was Jerry Springer on again?

 

[Rick1128]

Yes, isn't it brain numbing. If I am at home, I do wood working and other house projects. On the road, I am working on a novel. Who knows I might even finish it, make a killing, tell my boss where he can shove the airplane with both engines running and spend my time on the talk show curcuit.

 

[TurboS7]

Being on reserve is great. Get up shag the wife. Cook breakfast drink coffee with French Vanilla(yummmm), vist this board, read the paper. Do a couple of honey-do's, and save some for the next day. Go study for your PC so you can remember what the airplane looks like. Go work out. Play baseball with your son when he gets home from work. Get home watch the news, watch Dave Letterman and Nightline. Go to bed and do the whole process over again. Once a week sneak down to the office to check your v-file and get in and out without anyone seeing you. Do the revisions that you got in your v-file. Wow. it has already been a week and you start the whole process over again.

 

[RJlifer]

TurboS7, I hear ya man. Sitting reserve is great if ya get to sit at home. I got to do that for about six months before they closed the domicile. AHHH, the good ol' days. At least I was assigned a trip today. WOOHOO!! Gotta Fly

 

[RedBelly]

Here is a typical day in my life when I'm sitting reserve & not flying.

8:00 Get up, get some breakfast. Read the paper & drink some coffee. Wonder if scheduling is going to call.

10:30 Take a shower

11:00 Fire up the computer, check e-mail.

11:05 I have no friends, turn on the TV.

12:00 Call down to the front desk at the hotel to get a late check-out. Hope that scheduling calls soon.

1:00 Phone call fom housekeeping... "I'll be checking out in 1 hour." Pray to God that scheduling calls.

2:00 Call down to the front desk. "Can I extend for another night?" Pray to God again that they have a room available.

2:00 - 5:30 Watch TV or play computer games with myself. Scheduling may or may not call with an assignment for the next day.

5:30 Haul some serious butt across the street to Jack-in-the-Box. This is a BAD area... don't slow down until you set foot inside.

5:01 Order a Chicken bown, Large soda, and curly fries.

5:10 Still waiting... refill my Coke.

5:15 Food in hand. Time to haul butt the other direction.

5:16 Spill my mega-large Coke all over the center of the street. Have you ever tried to run with a huge coke in one hand?

5:17 Back at the hotel. I lived to see another day!!!!!

5:17 - 5:20 Catch my breath. Wash up for dinner.

5:20 - 8:00 Dinner & a movie on my laptop. Somewhere in there, I go on crew rest for the day.

8:00 - 12:00 Prime time TV.

12:00 Check the scheduling computer & hope I have a trip for tomorrow & go to bed.

12:10 One last paranoia check to make sure my cell phone & pager are on.

 

[TurboS7]

Reserve at LGW

When I got in this airline business I said I would never be on reserve in another city that wasn't my domicile. I passed up some captain positions for it. But Murphy's Law last year we had to do mandatory TDY for 3 months at LGW(Gatwick). I never bid it but the chief pilot called me and said "Dave we have run out of numbers underneath you, you have to go."It was fun but I'll run my reserve hotel routine over there. Because I was cheap I didn't get a cell phone.

Wake up at 10A.M. watch Sky News.
Get up and start the tea pot.
Drink tea with cookies while watching the twin towers collaspe-again.
Fill up bathtub.
Throw wash in bathtub with soap, swish around.
Wring out clothes in bathtub.
Put newspaper down on floor.
Hang clothes on clothes line strung all over room.
Call wife and wake her up at 0700 LGW time 1300.
Go work out.
Check for messages.
Sky News -watch twin towers fall with serveral views of aircraft hitting it. Watch Afganistan get plastered. Yell "take that Bin Laden" at the top of my voice. Listen to Top Gun on CD while watching F-18's blow off the carriers. Cheer when they land.
Call crewing.
Watch cricket match.
Go and eat at 1600.
Call crewing.
Released at 1700, head to the pub to talk to the rest of the guys and see where they flew it.
The wonders of aviation and sitting on reserve.

 

[meanstreak]

Well here at PSA us reserves work every fricken day because this company doesn't know how to staff its airline. I wish I could go back to the day of sitting around and working out ect. I don't think that will ever happen here. US Airways tells us who and how many to hire. Since we are in chapter 11 I think it will suck here for a while longer. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to have a job but our schedulers aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. They abuse the crap out of us reserves. It's not un-common for us to deadhead 4 legs a day to fly 1 or 2 legs. They have us sit on reserve in other bases than our own. This sucks when you would rather sit at home. Hopefully things change soon, but I doubt it.

 

[want2fly]

Do PSA guys get paid on the deadhead legs?

 

[s.o.sJTB]

Wake up at the crack of noon, put on my "cleanest dirty shirt", check around to see if any other crashpadders are around, watch the news until its time for a nap, late afternoon skate session, than dinner and the simpsons reruns, off to the bar to play some pool and drink some beer, make plans to wake up early and review "systems", go to sleep knowing it probably aint going to happen, and then begin again.

 

[hagen]

Well up in beautiful Newark here is what goes down:
8:30 roll out of bed (try to wake up everyone else)
8:30-9:30 drink coffee watch espn, cnn, mtv
9:30 pop in a chew (copenhagen long cut)
9:31-10:30 surf internet
10:31-11:30 talk to anyone whos up (if nobodys up take a dump)
11:31- take chew out, brush teeth, put new chew in
11:34 think about taking a shower
11:35 smell armpits decide I'm good for another day or 2
11:36- 12:30 back to TV, magazine, internet
12:30 look outside
12:31 laugh at the guy who got called for airport standby (take old chew out)
12:32-20:00 reflect on what I did this morning and do it again
20:01 realize I haven't eaten yet
20:02 grab a beer (repeat as necessary)
22:00 more TV, internet, bedtime chew, bedtime dump
24:00 bed (take out chew, brush teeth)

Thats a productive day sitting reserve for me.

On a side note : How long can you go without washing your shirt before others notice. I'm at 2 weeks right now and when I smell it I get nausea and gag!

 

[skypine69]

Wow, you guys all get up in the morning? That takes alot of effort and I am just not willing to go that extra mile. I need to rest up incase they call me. At least my crash pad has a foosball table for a little evening entertainment after getting out of bed about 2pm. As of yet no good porn DVDs but hopefully that will change with time. I agree with the other dude though, very few things are as satisfying as taking a dump while sitting reserve at the carshpad.
Gotta love reserve!

 

[TurboS7]

I forgot the dump used to come after the cricket match.

 

[flx757]

Turbo,

When I did my LGW duty last summer (at my flat in Horley), I recall the cricket matches seemed to go on for days at a time. Especially "The Ashes".

Personally, I can't wait that long .

 

[TurboS7]

I took the dump when they were having tea.