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Maria

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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?
 
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!
 
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...
 
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?
 
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.
 
JA PILOT said:
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!
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You lettered in Drama..... Didn't you?
 
Reserve at the regionals is a life changing, mood altering experience from which most people never fully recover from.
 
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.
 
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.
 
ThrottleJockey1 said:
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.
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What is the call back requirement when you are on reserve duty? For example, the 5 AM hot, or are they all hot?
 
ThrottleJockey1 said:
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.
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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!
 
Abernathy said:
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!
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Wow even at RAH where we are dancing with the devil, we get 20 minutes after they call you!!

PS: BB is the devil!!!
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Maria, not all rsv is hot. The general call back is 15 minutes. If you are on hot you get to the gate when you can there is no set time. If you are on regular rsv you should call them back within 15 minutes and then you have an hour and a half call out to the airport to show 45 minutes prior to departure. generally you get hot once per reserve period.
 
paddlehigh said:
Maria, not all rsv is hot. The general call back is 15 minutes. If you are on hot you get to the gate when you can there is no set time. If you are on regular rsv you should call them back within 15 minutes and then you have an hour and a half call out to the airport to show 45 minutes prior to departure. generally you get hot once per reserve period.
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Well not exactly, you have 1:30 from when scheduling first calls you. (This was grieved and lost). Then you do have 45 min to get an airplane ready or 30 min for a DH.
Hot Reserve or as it should be called "Ready Reserve". Can be 3 times in a row max. It has happened that if they are short reserves one person will get picked on and have to sit a couple days in a row.
I got Ready Reserve 8 times in one month. That was my max. If you are at 72hrs flying, just call out sick for the rest of the month. Or if you like going to the airport for 10hrs at a time for free then don't.
Word of warning. Be nice to schedulers. Even if they aren't. If you don't think something is contractually legal then tell them you have to call the union before accepting. Our new management is just waiting to catch pilots being rude to schedulers.
You may be able to take reserve for a year. But after that, it gets very old. Not knowing when you are going to be working, or where you are going to be spending the night, or if you are going to be making more than 72hrs. Or flying till 2am then flip flopping to 5am Ready Reserve. Starting day 1 at 5am then finishing day 5 at 10pm or later.
PSA reserve is horrible. Best go to a doctor and get a mind numbing pill.
 
Been getting Hot Reserve an average of 2 times per 5 days. First day is always Hot, then one other day. Then there is the Regular Reserve that turns into Hot Reserve. At the beginning of your regular reserve shift you get a call. "You are now hot from 6:30-16:30." Another way to milk a few more hours from your life.
 
Abernathy said:
Do you still get the diarrhea? And the hallucinations? I wish those would go away.
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It's been a long time, but I found that a change of diet has kinda helped the diarrhea. I never did get hallucinations, but those damn voices! They never had anything nice to say.
 
10 Hours for free work is a lie. You are paid for that time at the airport, its your own choice to spend/ waste your time, gas and to eat at the airport.
Nobody forced you to show up!!! Slavery is dead in America FOOL. Remember you are just a $20,000 a year expense for this company. You should be lucky that I let you have a JOB.
And I quote " If you are POOR in AMERICA its your own FAULT!"
-Sign-
The Management Team
Taken America Back in 2012
 
If you're a RSV at PSA you'll NEVER break GUAR. They'll fly you to the mid 60's and then sit you hot the rest of the month.
 

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