Originally Posted by
Hawaii808
get yourself an Apple Watch with cellular and you can absolutely go surfing anywhere on Oahu with our 3 hr call out. Imagine the days before cell phones or pagers when pilots literally were stuck at home waiting for the phone to ring. Some pilots have no perspective on how good it is these days.
I wrote that tongue in cheek because there were people on here that were complaining that not being called while on reserve isn’t a day off. Why? Because they couldn’t go backpacking or surfing. They could go 7 days of being on call and not get called once and not consider it being off.