Do as you wish, but ALPA never endoresed Emaestro therefor you are not required to use it. There are many bugs in the system that ALPA warned management about and they put it out anyway. Appearently it isn't actually keeping log of your flights and legality.

There are also safety issues with this new program. The Captain is held accountable for his crew and his craft, however now has no means of researching his crew before hand. Some Captains really want to know if they are going to be given a FA or an FO that has had minimal rest on reserve and that could possibly be fatigued.

Don't use it to check in. Simply call crew scheduling and flood them with calls to check in. Yes, you may hold for a few minutes, but possibly they will yank this thing and make it fulling functional before they preach it's greatness.

Also to reserve guys, be careful of clicking that acknowledge button the night before a reserve window. If you click it the night before, your duty day then doesn't start until you check in that day. However, if you wait for them to page you at least your duty clock starts earlier. I have talked to a few guys already that wound up with 12.5 hours on the clock from check in yesterday on the A4 window. There day could have been much shorter had they not clicked scheduling's magic button.