Originally Posted by
UGBSM
Ok, but don’t be obtuse. You know very well what is meant here. Unless you were hired yesterday we have all lived with the short call requirement to be “promptly available” and live in the “general area” for many decades now. It’s not new.
2 hours has not been written into the PWA because we have negotiated the leeway to be reasonable and use good judgement. Yet there is always going to be someone who is going to ruin it for all of us by stretching “promptly available” and “general area” to unreasonableness.
As in trying to be 2 hours flying time away on short call, or live 110 miles away from the airport. (2 hours times 55 mph driving I’m guessing).
110 miles is absolutely reasonable and not stretching anything at all, while that was even confirmed to me from the CPO on more than one occasion. I purposely asked this during a probationary interview so I wouldn’t find myself between a rock and hard spot with scheduling and screwing them over. I’ve always been honest when they (scheduling) call which is all they care about for planning purposes. When folks BS their way because they are sitting well outside something reasonable, then we shoot ourselves in the foot.
Mongo