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Old 03-02-2018 | 06:43 AM
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PotatoChip
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Originally Posted by CozyDriver
What was their reply when you pointed that out?
The union has pointed this out and nothing has changed.
I have personally had a talk with the Director of Flight Operations, and to be honest I was stunned at how clueless he was to simple basic airline operating procedures. For instance, CommutAir forces pilots to report to the airport at their scheduled report time no matter how delayed their flight is or where the airplane they are flying is at.

That's crazy!!!

I've seen pilots report at an outstation, with no airplane to even fly, and sit there for four hours with nothing to do. Why is this so bad? Because now their official duty day has started and they are on the clock for FAR 117. This routinely leads to crews timing out later in the day when they could have simply stayed at the hotel for another four hours. This then ruins the start-up of the following day as well! It's then two to three days of screw ups. I suggested letting crews stay in the hotel, and report when they could actually fly. When I brought this up, he literally said, "Wow. Hadn't thought of that. That actually makes sense."

Again. This is a VP Director.

Facepalm.