Originally Posted by
RonRicco
If we kept the ability to keep the phone off for 9 hours at anytime, with 117 it basically would turn long call into a 19 hours.
mine: (perhaps they should have hired sooner?)
Eliminating the ability to turn off the phone and requiring an acknowledgement within two hours, is certainly much more onerous on the long call pilot. Besides that ability to have your phone off for sleep, it also restricts your ability to do activities that have you out of cell coverage, or where your phone may not even work (ever been to a college football game with ATT, can't get a text off half the time). So what we would have would basically be "acknowledgement short call" within a long call period.
Agree. You could now have short call within long call, and can never be out of contact.
Quite a few possible fixes for this that would be beneficial to reserve pilots without complete hamstringing the company. It will be interesting to see where this ends up
I'm curious what you think some of those possible fixes are that would be beneficial to reserve pilots.
On another note I am also curious if the union has polled anybody on what we would like to "give up" for Part 117 changes?