[QUOTE=TonyC;1430315]As you know, it's about a 6-hour drive. Should you choose to spend your day driving instead of mowing the lawn, taking the kids to music lessons, wandering the aisles at Target, and whatever else the guys living in Collierville get to do during the day, be careful you don't let a Chief Pilot ... or whatever they're calling themselves these days ... "see" what you're doing. They may feel compelled to "say" something which would ruin your day.

As you know, the FAA places a responsibility on you, the pilot, to determine if you are fit to fly. You and only you can make that determination. The FAA's "IMSAFE" personal checklist can be found inside the front cover of our ALPA FedEx calendar.

Despite this, it seems that we are now subject to Flight Managers taking it upon themselves to make that determination for us.

Here's the current link: Our new expectation: "When you see something, say something"

(Once he's posted his next blog entry, I believe this will change to Our new expectation: "When you see something, say something")

This Flight Manager looked at the jumpseat schedule of two pilots and removed them from their scheduled trips. If he paid them for the trips, that's great, but I have a strong suspicion they were left hanging in the lurch, in Memphis without a place to stay, and now left to Make Up a big trip with very few options in Open Time.

What you do in your off-duty time is your own business. Jumpseating to commute is off-duty. Mowing the yard is off-duty. Driving from ATL to MEM is off-duty.

But now we have the threat of Flight Managers who will "Say" something if they find out about it -- and a union who won't say anything about it.


Be careful out there.

I especially like his claim you have to be rested for a 16 hr duty day. They "the company" want and train via Blue Threat about the idea of strategic sleeping. There is no way to do that and be prepared to sleep at the end of the first leg of your scheduled paring for most domestic trips. Also no way to go and sleep in the bunk of a 777 either if you are chosen to rest first.