Originally Posted by preflight

Have you picked up trips from opentime on days off?

Have you called scheduling to see if they have "something for you to do
?"

And did you confirm CA reserve for at least a year?

How can you guess an average without data? Where did you pull the 40 hours from? Is that what other pilots say? I ask because the reserve pilots I fly with say much less. We have line pilots getting credit pushes and reserve pilots getting 4 hours. That seems pretty crazy to me (maybe it's just pilots saying stuff, but I have also been shown flight crew view screens that verify)...is a minimum reserve block time a technical impossibility? Going into line checks with 10 hours in last 672 is not fun.