SCR commuting question
 

Would it be a bad idea to commute home inside my 2-hour call out?

Say If my reserve time ends at 1800, earliest I can be released is 1700 (scheduling won’t let me go earlier). If there’s a flight at 1625 to commute home, I’m inside my 2 hour window with nothing scheduled, is this a big no-no? I haven’t done this, just looking to hear your opinions on it.

This would be an easy way to end up with a meeting in the CP office. Although it makes sense, unfortunately that’s not how it works. The luck would be is you’d hop on that flight, and they try to call you to wave your 2 hour call out to try and get a flight out. Even tho you would have said no, you still weren’t contactable during your RAP. There’s some caveats in the contact about being released on your last day, I’d have to look them up to give you the exact details. Regardless, I would not get on that flight.

Plus they can always extend you 😬

Although sometimes they may release you early if asked

Depending on when you started SCR on your last day, you are usable quite a bit past 5pm. They can assign you a trip at 5pm when you call to check out and you can work past 5pm.

I was never assigned anything on my last day this late, but it is possible.

Thanks for the replies, they have yet to let me go early on my last day.

Email the scheduling supervisor after 3:45 on your last day asking to be released so that you can catch your commute home. Don’t ask the scheduler, email the supervisor.

"If your scheduling experience has been a professional one, please press 1. If not, please press 2"

Presses 2

"I'm sorry, your selection cannot be recorded at this time, good bye!"

Don’t do it.. coming from a seasoned reserve pro. I’ve done it before and the one time they actually called me I left early. Luckily it was a slap on the hand.. call and ask to get released early but scheduling isn’t doing that since all the reserve rule changes.

Yeah I’ve asked for an early release on my last day several times, and it has never been approved. I’m only asking for a 45 minute early release to catch an earlier flight home, now I get home at midnight instead of 1900....oh well.

Again, email the scheduling supervisor. Don’t ask a scheduler.

I missed your first post, thanks.

The contract says that they release you by 1700 unless they can have you on a flight scheduled to depart by 1830. Work backwards... 2 hour callout and if they haven’t notified you by 1630, you’re good. The contract also says that you’ll report 45 min prior to scheduled departure time which moves that back to 1545.

I haven’t commuted on SCR since Dec 18, but I was released early numerous times. I usually called at 1600 and got released in time to catch my flight home. I was released at 1400 twice and made my earlier commute.

If scheduling won’t release you, explain it to them logically that they can’t use you and if that doesn’t work, conference in a chief pilot. We actually seem to have some food CPs right now but you have to know the contract.

P.S. if you’re in Knoxville, shift right one hour.

It also helps to be familiar with the remaining scheduled flights leaving your base on your final day of reserve. You’re probably spending that final day at the hotel or airport waiting to go home so use that time to formulate your argument (or defense). Schedulers hate dealing with pilots who know the contract.