Surviving PSA Reserve

[ThrottleJockey1]

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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.

 

[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.

 

[paddlehigh]

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.

 

[ex j-41]

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.

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.

 

[Big Dog]

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.

 

[dustrpilot]

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

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.

 

[CUBMAN]

So then I guess a quick upgrade is out of the question.

 

[hockeypilot44]

This type of practice should be illegal. 10 hours at the airport for free? Isn't there minimum wage in this country?

 

[JA PILOT]

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

 

[B727FA]

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.

 

[paddlehigh]

Ok I flew 88 hour on RSV at PSA last month.

 

[MtrHedAP]

29 hours flown this month... Had thanksgiving off and will have Christmas off and all weekends at least.