Originally Posted by
1900luxuryliner
Lakes:
-1 hour, 45 minutes for DEN, to show time/ check-in
-1 hour all other cities
-No long call
-10 days off, with 3 sets of 3 days off, and 3 inviolable days.
-14 hours of reserve per day, most often 0800-2200
-Average reserve pilot doesn't fly much on the FO side, these days. I've heard as low as 15 hours, and as high as 50 hours. Captain's side flies a lot more on reserve.
-Hot reserve is 8 hours. I always did 0800-1600 back when I was on FO reserve.
-Hot reserve normally happens a few days per month on a reserve schedule. I never did it more than once per week, and averaged maybe once or twice per month.
-No reserve built into lines, that I know of.
-75 hour guarantee
-Reserve calls not seniority-based. One scheduler told me it's basically alphabetical order.
-If you're a senior FO, and bid reserve, you probably won't get called much, as they need to consolidate the junior FOs (100 hours in 90 days), or they need to take their checkride again. This comes in handy for upgrade studying.
So I just got my first high speed last night on reserve here at Lakes. It was scheduled for 1453 of duty but apparently they can schedule us up to 15 on high speeds.
Question though...at my last airline if I remember correctly, our duty time started when we started our reserve day. So if we started reserve at 8am and got called out at 8pm, we'd been on duty 12 hours already so a high speed would not have been possible. So is that not how it works here? We're not on duty until our report time? Is it that way at a lot of other places too? I have another high speed on Friday. I start reserve at 10am Friday, fly that night and Saturday morning and get back almost 24 hours after starting reserve on Friday. How is any of this crap legal?