Originally Posted by
baseball
It's not bound to happen. In PBS, you can bid to avoid sit time, or award airports such as GRU, etc. As a person that flies Rio, Sao Paulo, Bogata, Lima, Santiago, I don't have any other base than my own. I also don't believe you can do it in another base anyways....
I don't ever have sit time in the airport during a trip. I go to work usually about 8PM at night or so on a Thursday or Friday and I land about 5 am on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. Sometimes I have sit time, which is unscheduled MX delay somewhere between 2200 and 0100 hours, but not likely Ipad peeps at the airport then.
Even if I came in an hour early for report time, no way the flight office would be open with Ipad peeps. For fatigue mitigation reasons, I don't want to come to the airport super early and then hang out all day before I go on a 10.5 hour flight.
767, 777, 787 pilots don't have sit time in my experience.
While it would be nice to get paid, I simply don't agree that coming into work early is fair to your employees, no matter what sort of company you work for. McDonalds doesn't make employees come into work early. But, bigger picture and more applicable to my situation is this: Coming in early would degrade safety margins and increase fatigue. What if the entire 3 man crew for Rio came in at 4:00 local base time to get their Ipads? We were on duty from 4PM until when exactly??? I am not sure the FAA would buy that. What would our CCO time be?
You should NOT go in early. I agree. You're the perfect example that the union should mention. No way for you to get your swap unless it's during a delay AND someone is there to do it.
Maybe you're the example of an individual who should swap out when you're at TK.
I'm a 756 guy. I got my last IPad during a delay. I get the issue for some (a few) pilots. But that pilots who are doing swaps between trips (during a sit) or on FSB are now being called 'independent contractors' is Bull****. (edited for the snowflakes with sensitive eyes~).
The Company NEVER said you HAVE to swap by a certain date/time. Nor did they say 'come in early... stay late...'
But one council decided to twist facts and now we have this goat rope of a conversation going on.
Motch
PS> If I remember right, last time it started out with M-F and office hours and transitioned to weekends and later hours to accommodate the WB/International crowd.