Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 1382009)

Can you expand on that a little?

My recollection is that we had to be available twice a day for a brief window of SC (I think 2 hours in the morning, 2 in the evening), but I wasn't in an international category at that time. Then again, in international categories, as they stood then, you could pretty much plan your sleep and your activities to coincide with a slew of predictable departures within a fairly narrow time window. Assuming you flew at all: there was a time when Reserves were used for contingencies, not as unscheduled lineholders. How much would you actually fly, in those days?

Perhaps you could more precisely describe those circumstances where you sat 24-hr SC, six days a week, and were called out frequently, at very different hours of the day, at Delta? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just asking.

Originally Posted by Flamer (Post 1382031)

Real question here. Saw another trip go out as "reserve only". How is this legal under the RUO? Also, using ATL reserve pilots to cover Msp trips? Shouldn't there have been a green slip, white slip or at least using in base reserves for trip coverage. This has always seemed fishy to me. Check out ATL M88B 147 for today and help me figure out where I am wrong pls.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1382040)

When I was hired reserve was 19/20 days a month. It was a 2 hour callout all the time. Essentially 24 hour short call all month. Sometime after that we went to the window system. It may have been the 91 contract. The windows were 6 hours a day. Normally 8 to noon and 5 to 7 pm in my category. You were obligated for short call in the windows. You were on long call outside the windows. I don't remember how many hours you had to report from long call. How much we flew was just like today. It varied with staffing. I do recall that I could often fill up before the end of the month and get a few extra days off.

Originally Posted by CAAC ATP (Post 1382039)

All this talk of Short Call, how about a longer call out window for long call? Are their detriments to extending the call to say 18 or 24 hours? With a slight extension in the call out time, I think a majority could easily sit long call at home without risk of getting burnt.

Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1382040)

When I was hired reserve was 19/20 days a month. It was a 2 hour callout all the time. Essentially 24 hour short call all month.

Originally Posted by capncrunch (Post 1382024)

I had more respect for our reps before I started seeing the way truth is bended and numbers made fuzzy in attempts to always promote ALPA. Never once admitting that its fallible. Upsetting to say the least. I want reps representing pilots not ALPA and management.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1381920)

Actually it has, considering several people here have been elected reps. There is certainly some influence that comes from the exchange and discussion of ideas, and those that took that outside of the intertoobz world have made a difference. I actively participate outside of forum world, some don't.

How's the MIL leave count? Still right around 200? ;)

Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 1382009)

Can you expand on that a little?

My recollection is that we had to be available twice a day for a brief window of SC (I think 2 hours in the morning, 2 in the evening), but I wasn't in an international category at that time. Then again, in international categories, as they stood then, you could pretty much plan your sleep and your activities to coincide with a slew of predictable departures within a fairly narrow time window. Assuming you flew at all: there was a time when Reserves were used for contingencies, not as unscheduled lineholders. How much would you actually fly, in those days?

Perhaps you could more precisely describe those circumstances where you sat 24-hr SC, six days a week, and were called out frequently, at very different hours of the day, at Delta? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just asking.