Surviving PSA Reserve

[Maria]

Looking for tips on surviving PSA reserve. I've heard taking the morning airport tour allows one to get in, settle down and snooze for a few hours, possibly get called for an in-and-out, then have the rest of the day to goof off.

What say the collective for someone that wants to fly?

 

[JA PILOT]

I say grow the Hell up!!!
There is no way to survive reserve, especially at PSA airlines.
Thats like asking someone on Omaha Beach how they survived that mayhem and carnage around them. Its a bloody waste of time to be at the regionals on reserve.
Its an horrid experience and you will lose your soul.
If survival is your main concern... Then walk away from this career before you lose all so dear around you.
Other than that... Hope you survive this wasted experience!

 

[aerobat21]

for someone that wants to fly?

It's driving a bus, sorry

 

[spudskier]

Laptop, headphones, cell phone. Walk the airport, grab some coffee, cruise the interwebs. stay away from FI... it's toxic to your psyche. Get Spotify, watch youtube, hulu, etc...

 

[Maria]

Um, was thinking more like, what type of reserve do you bid to have the best chances of being called to fly instead of sitting around picking one's nose without getting credit or pay?

 

[skydork]

There is only one type of reserve to bid. You can ask scheduling for first out but they are going to do whatever they want to anyway.

 

[OPECJet]

I say grow the Hell up!!!
There is no way to survive reserve, especially at PSA airlines.
Thats like asking someone on Omaha Beach how they survived that mayhem and carnage around them. Its a bloody waste of time to be at the regionals on reserve.
Its an horrid experience and you will lose your soul.
If survival is your main concern... Then walk away from this career before you lose all so dear around you.
Other than that... Hope you survive this wasted experience!

You lettered in Drama..... Didn't you?

 

[dustrpilot]

Reserve at the regionals is a life changing, mood altering experience from which most people never fully recover from.

 

[Abernathy]

Reserve at the regionals is a life changing, mood altering experience from which most people never fully recover from.

Do you still get the diarrhea? And the hallucinations? I wish those would go away.

 

[Big Dog]

Live in base. It's the only thing that has made it even slightly better. All reserve is equally worthless. You are at the whim of scheduling. Even if you pull their butt out of the fire, it earns you maybe 3 hours good grace. The next day it is 5am Hot Reserve or you can always quit. It is more or less a waiting game for a hard line, or at least a build-up. Welcome to the worst reserve rules in regional airline flying.

I now have a therapy session to attend. We meet at the bar.

 

[ThrottleJockey1]

Remember the little things.

If you want to have some control in RSV, you need to take away some of schedulings. Why do you pilots give scheduling your cell phone number? My RSV phone number is my home phone. They can call that number with anychange they want. I will get the message when I get home. My cell phone is that..... mine, not schedulings.
Live in base is a given, either it be RSV or a line holder.

 

[Maria]

If you want to have some control in RSV, you need to take away some of schedulings. Why do you pilots give scheduling your cell phone number? My RSV phone number is my home phone. They can call that number with anychange they want. I will get the message when I get home. My cell phone is that..... mine, not schedulings.
Live in base is a given, either it be RSV or a line holder.

What is the call back requirement when you are on reserve duty? For example, the 5 AM hot, or are they all hot?

 

[Abernathy]

If you want to have some control in RSV, you need to take away some of schedulings. Why do you pilots give scheduling your cell phone number? My RSV phone number is my home phone. They can call that number with anychange they want. I will get the message when I get home. My cell phone is that..... mine, not schedulings.
Live in base is a given, either it be RSV or a line holder.

I don't know what airline you work for but at ASA, if they try to reach you and you don't answer, you get an occurrence. So unless you want to sit at home all day long on reserve, you need to supply them with your cell phone number.

What's an occurrence? It's basically an adult version of a time out. 5 time outs in a year and you get detention. 6 in one year, and you can get expelled.

THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO!

 

[BUDDHA145]

I don't know what airline you work for but at ASA, if they try to reach you and you don't answer, you get an occurrence. So unless you want to sit at home all day long on reserve, you need to supply them with your cell phone number.

What's an occurrence? It's basically an adult version of a time out. 5 time outs in a year and you get detention. 6 in one year, and you can get expelled.

THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO!

Wow even at RAH where we are dancing with the devil, we get 20 minutes after they call you!!

PS: BB is the devil!!!

 

[Abernathy]

Wow even at RAH where we are dancing with the devil, we get 20 minutes after they call you!!

PS: BB is the devil!!!

I think we get 15 minutes. But point being, you gotta have your cell phone on you otherwise you stay at home all day long.

 

[ThrottleJockey1]

more details

when I leave the house I forward all the calls from my home phone to my cell. I will not answer any from the area code 937. We get 15 minutes to call back. Once I leave on a trip, no more phone call forwarding. Leave a message for me at home. They love it.

 

[dollacrackho]

I like the advice of throttle jockey. Just follow that and then you won't have any reserve problems at all . Pretty soon you won't be getting any calls from scheduling.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

must be nice, here they pull your deadhead (everything seems to start and end with a DH) home so you have to then call them and they then get to inform you of the next screw job they have in store for you.

 

[Question4U]

Welcome to the worst reserve rules in regional airline flying..

Well at least US Airways is keeping in consistent at all of its carriers. You should see mainlines rules. Garbage

 

[paulsalem]

Reserve at PSA is all about your attitude. If you go into your stretch of reserve days with the mindset that PSA owns your time over the next X days and they're free to use you as they see fit it will go a lot smoother.

Don't try to understand scheduling, they're poorly trained and the software they use is nearly worthless in helping them cover flying when something unplanned happens.

If you are too tired to fly call in fatigued. Build flight time and then get out.