Originally Posted by
Sputnik
You might be reason.... AMC picked up a policy that augmented days were only allowed when transiting to/from the AOR. Sounds good on paper but then you get to Alaska. Can't go stateside and Europe in a basic day. Mission originates at user's location in lower 48. So we preposition the night before. The problem? They'd go from planned takeoff, back it up for our flight time and crew rest. Solution? Take off home station at 1 am, fly for six hours, then enter "crew rest" to take off and fly all night across pond.
On paper it looks like I had two humane basic days instead of a long augmented one. In reality I just stayed awake for two nights straight.
This is the exact thing I was asking them to fix. They were doing this for all our channels. Our ORM scores for basic Pac Channels were worse than for the OIF Channels. I told the general that they were alerting us at all hours of the night on Pac Channels when we had the min crew rest. After they fixed the Pac Channels I figured I might as well ask about the OIF/OEF Channels. They had us alerting out of Travis at around 6pm to preposition to CHS, then min turn to cross the pond. All of this was based on land time in the sand box. With a little adult conversation about safety and ORM, they modified our alert times to around 9am out of Travis. Needless to say, the crews enjoyed this a lot better. Basically, TACC asked me what alert time I would like and I also got to build extra crew rest into the stops at Rota and Ramstein.