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Tips and tricks?

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It’s supereze

Know when you must answer the phone, but especially when not to. The UPA is very detailed and thought through on this. It’s very specific and not always intuitive, but you’ll extend your personal shelf life a lot by knowing when you can’t be bothered.

With the slow down, what are the chances one could sit LSR everyday?

Not everyday, but there will be a lot less SC assignments (relative to reserves available) than there have been in the past.

Obviously it’s very category dependent, as some are much more over staffed than others. Currently the most overstaffed seat in the system is SFO 777 FO. In the next few days, Crew Companion shows 47, 47, 50, 55, and 62 reserves available each day. They’re only going to tag a relatively small percentage of those pilots with a SC, I’d say 10-20%.

This is the dream of all dreams. Dont tease me.

Normally, you’re either flying, on field standby or short call. If you’re on long call, they’ll invent something for you to do unless there’s a bunch of open flying on the horizon. An example would be not building a short call for a Friday reserve when they have six open trips on Saturday. If they have nothing open, they’ll give you something.

Here’s the gouge if you’re new to reserve. That will get you started. If you have more specific questions, PDR or try the other forum. There are several experts over there who are more valuable than platinum.

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April is going to be worse for all of us pilots that are SFO 777 FOs. On PBS it shows that there are going to be 211 total reserves. The G line is currently standing at 257 in category. There’s going to be a lot of pilots on SC!!!

There’s a decent chance LSR frequency won’t change. As long as they have one or two on LSR, they may feel free to put everyone else, whether one or twenty, on SC/FS since the penalty for doing so is not significant to them. From their POV there’s no downside to have pilots sitting at the airport all day, and all upside. I think the swing shift often looks at all those additional unused pilots on LSR and thinks why not make the scheduler’s life easier.

Not after removing 140 SRLs.

Whats the “other” forum?

I need to figure out exactly when I need and do not need to answer the phone? I have to commute to rsv and would like to spend as much time at home as possible before traveling in.

Not sure how this will post but this is included in the MEC Master DYK document. ual.alpa.org

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Lee

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They only got 114 SRLs.

I’m no math whiz...but I count 139. Looking on my phone with 4pt font I might have missed one, but am sure your number is wronger than mine.

You absolutely do. That’s 90% of managing or mismanaging life on reserve. Read UPA, read Did You Know, read the gouge posted here. And every time you screw it up, read it again. Even if you do, “doh” will be a frequent visitor.

I’m no math whiz...but I count 139. Looking on my phone with 4pt font I might have missed one, but am sure your number is wronger than mine.

OK, so that reduces number of reserves to 97.

Where is the latest incarnation of the gouge posted in PDF format? The other forum?

I have version 6.0

Yeah, the current PDF is posted in the downloads section of the “other” forum.

PM me and I can send you the telephone decision tree which will tell you when you have to answer among other things. I can’t figure out how to post it here

My experience on the 320 in EWR, staying on LSR is very rare. The crew desk will create short call and field standby assignments on a whim to fit whatever silo they want, and then assign them to whomever they want. I’ll finish a 3 or 4 day trip, be driving home and be told that I have field standby tomorrow!! Soooo, if I just finished a trip, how on earth am I the next person available?!?! Shouldn’t I be going to the proverbial bottom of the list??? Complete buffoonery.

Curious to hear from other Bus/Guppy guys how common FSB is across system? It’s still extremely rare on WB’s and 57, but they may be changing with the staffing surplus coming...

SFO 737 FO here and was on reserve until this past February and there would be at a minimum of 2 and sometimes 3 FSB’s a day, usually in the afternoon and evening. As a poster above mentioned they will make assignments out of order so knowing where you sit in the silo is imperative as well as knowing the contract. I received a call late one night for a short call the next day knowing full well that there were two pilots ahead of me in the silo. When the scheduler tried to give me the assignment I inquired about the two above me. She told me that they both had one SC each already and that I had none so it was going to me. It was at this point that I informed her that per the contract a pilot could not be bypassed until they had TWO unused SC or FSB assignments. She put me on hold came back 30 seconds later and told me that I was right and I would not be given the assignment. This is the kind of crap the will try and pull. As mentioned above, know where you sit and know the contract. I’ll also add that I was on reserve for nearly six months which I realize really isn’t that long but over that period I can count on one hand the amount of times they left me alone on LSR. I was either on SC, FSB or out flying.

Aside from buffoonery, it’s the silos too. They could have 10 reserves but since you’re the only one in your silo, they can create a “two day SC" even though no SC is actually two days long, and give it to you because you’re the only one in a two-day silo. The fix is to get rid of the silos, and all SC/FS are for one day (since they are really only for one day anyway), then FIFO would be for very reserve in the pool, not just your silo. It would prevent this practice of them looking at the silos and then creating a reserve assignment designed only for you.

Okay, have zero idea what I’m talking about here......just work the PDR Hotline.

Yes, CM has too much freedom with how/when they build SC and FSB. That said, SC often overlaps 2 calendar days.

The freedom they have is in that contract thing. Sucks but is.

Lee

PS, don’t like it either

Yes, it is. Which is why that should be changed. Right now the contract REQUIRES they build siloed assignments.

20-K-6-c Short Call assignments shall be built for a designated silo.

Note the implication—assignments are built for silos, but not for a reserve pilot. Instead, silos are built for reserves by swing shift schedulers.

I think it would benefit us greatly to change this language. Others may agree, others may not. The leverage might be that they also might like to simplify the whole process. Build no-silo assignments, anyone can pick them up, anyone can be assigned them in FIFO order. Otherwise, add language that SC/FS "shall be built before 1100".

the idea of silos is to cover specific time windows or trips, I.e. a 3 day trip.

reality seems to be that they chop them up as they see fit anyway. No real need for silos then. It is usually about saving the operations the day off and kick the can down the road.

the idea of silos is to cover specific time windows or trips, I.e. a 3 day trip.

reality seems to be that they chop them up as they see fit anyway. No real need for silos then. It is usually about saving the operations the day off and kick the can down the road.