Originally Posted by
dera
If you get a 4-day you don't want on reserve, trust me, there will be a senior pilot who will gladly take it from you. CS cannot deny it if the senior guy is legal for it and has the same (or fewer) days left.
I don't know what your definition of "way too often" is, every single time I had RAP2 on my last day, I was released before 6pm. The RAP flips don't happen as often as you claim (which is why the RAPs would suddenly be released at 5pm).
The mid-day rest is a problem, it never happened to me, but that really needs to be fixed.
The whole example you have is stupid. If you have such limited commuting options to our bases, why the heck would you ever even consider working here? Go somewhere with an easier commute.
If your last flight is at 430 or whatever, chances are you won't have two flights in the morning either, so it wouldn't be a legal commute to any regional.
Just working down from the top to bottom here:
I never once had flying taken from me while I was on reserve and I flew a few four days, some had enough value I was shocked it wasn’t appropriated for OT.
Being released after 6pm on the last day, I’d say it happened about half the time.
Mid day rest is a problem CS tries. EVERYONE this happens to should contact their union rep and if they can’t get it fixed, fatigue it just prior to sign in (don’t call CS prior to fatigue call to complain about it). Really only way to solve the problem.
I commute. A really easy commute though. However, I there is only ONE flight from my hometown after 5pm. I do have two flight options prior to 9am... and 3 prior to 10am (start of RAP2) and 4 prior to 11am (start of standby 2).
But I’m seeing a theme in your posts that others caught on before me... if it’s all good for YOU, nobody else has a reason to complain.
As far as your assertion that it’s been good for you and that story needs to be told, it’d be a lot more palatable if you qualified your stories with “I got lucky, you never know what you’re going to get until you show up for class.”