Originally Posted by
FrankTheTank
FWIW. Was on stby trying to deviate back to the planet this weekend. And jumpseats told me the “auto” approval wasn’t working and 1 ahead of me was still waiting for Capt approval and this was about 8 hours from show. About 5 hours before show, I gave up on waiting to see what would happen so just cancelled. Don’t know if he/she ever got approval or not, I just took the scheduled back.
For FedEx pilots, my recommendation is to send the Captain a text message.
Offline pilots don't have that luxury.
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