Originally Posted by
CBreezy
There is literally no downside to the company saying be there in 45 mins. "I'll be there when I can get there." They can ask me to do whatever they want but you are taught from the age of a new hire that you get there when you can get there. If they delay the flight, that's their problem, not yours.
And there are only downsides to defining SC report times.
Sure there's a downside. If we had a hard 2 hour requirement (that BOTH sides would have to adhere to) the 45 minute callout would be a thing of the past and the SC pilot in question...or any other SC pilot...wouldn't even be called to begin with...OR the company would be compelled to post a departure time at least two hours later in order to legally assign the trip to this pilot. As it is, as far as I'm concerned every time they call a SC pilot for a trip reporting less than two hours out, they're getting a SC pilot for "free". That's not necessarily good either.
That said, I am NOT advocating for a hard two hour SC response time, or any other specific time, for all the reasons we know. Any slight benefit would be greatly overshadowed by the drawbacks.