Hours Flown By Reserve Pilots Per Year?

Commuting to reserve is hell, add a cross country commute...it's like being stuck in Gainesville, FL for the rest of your life (My own vision of what hell is...I kid, I kid).

The couple of bids I went back to Horizon to sit reserve, I think crew scheduling got tired of hearing from me...I called everyday because I hated just sitting there.
 
FlyChicaga said:
You know, someday I hope to live in base again and bid reserve. My goal is to fly between 200-300 hours a year max. The rest of the time I'd spend at home doing honey-do work, playing with my dog, or playing XBox. I can still remember what that was like, and it was awesome.

Commuting to reserve? Fly me 999 hours a year please. Preferably 999 hours by December 1st. ;)
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:yeahthat:

Commuting to reserve sucks if you're not flying.
 
FlyChicaga said:
You know, someday I hope to live in base again and bid reserve. My goal is to fly between 200-300 hours a year max. The rest of the time I'd spend at home doing honey-do work, playing with my dog, or playing XBox. I can still remember what that was like, and it was awesome.

Commuting to reserve? Fly me 999 hours a year please. Preferably 999 hours by December 1st. ;)
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That was my dream. Had my Gamefly membership and everything. Yeah, I think I got to play 1 game on Gamefly and canceled the membership b/c I was never home. One day, I hope to live in base, be on reserve and be employed with an airline that's properly staffed. On the other hand, at least since my airline is understaffed, that means I get to stay in the left seat....
 
FlyChicaga said:
You know, someday I hope to live in base again and bid reserve. My goal is to fly between 200-300 hours a year max. The rest of the time I'd spend at home doing honey-do work, playing with my dog, or playing XBox. I can still remember what that was like, and it was awesome.

Commuting to reserve? Fly me 999 hours a year please. Preferably 999 hours by December 1st. ;)
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At ZV, one lineholding captain timed out at 1200 hours on Dec 1, nothing in the contract prevented him from being made a reserve captain and flying him another 50-60 hours for the month of December under Part 91 for repositions and mx FCFs.
 
CRJDriver said:
When I was at Comair, the amount of flying on reserve varied. Comair does abuse the crap and uses their reserves A LOT, however, a lot of it is duty time and deadheading. I'd say I was flying between 40-50 hrs a month, but I would be crediting close to monthly guarantee or would go over guarantee. I remember there was one month where I deadheaded close to 30 freakin' hours!!! Ridiculous!
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Yeah I'm the king of deadheading now. I fly around 45-55 hrs per month. But they deadhead everywhere so I get close to monthly guarantee.
 
I posted this chart in another thread. This is my first 12 months on the line broken down:
 

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surreal1221 said:
Actual Credit and Paid Credit.

Do explain.

Is credit not credit at Colgan?
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It looks like to me that actual credit is exactly that and paid credit is what he was paid. If he didn't break guarantee, then actual was less than paid, however if guarantee was broken, then it equaled paid credit. I however have a question about days off. How the hell do you only manage 8 days off in a month?
 
Hmm, in my world, credit is credit. But, now that you say that, that does make some sense.

Looking back at the image, that appears to be the case.
 
At ASA I have 420 hours this year....

In the previous 12 months I have 662 hours

This is all on mostly long-call-reserve as a CR7/9 captain
 
125hrs thus far in 2009. You start to get used to the idea of not flying for 2 weeks straight, then going right into a PC or line check.

Aug 08-Aug 09 it's around 190.
 
Interestingly enough, here at XJT the company/union just announced that our new reserve bypass number is 40 hours. This means if you achieve 40 hours flying time, you'll be bypassed for callout until all other reserve pilots in your base/seat reach 40 hours.

This sucks for commuters, but is great for those who live in base. It's being used as a furlough mitigation strategy for the time being.
 
I've flown 410 hrs YTD, with about 50 of those in the right seat. I've already used both of my vacation weeks for the year, plus I never go out of my way to call C.S. and request trips or put myself on the "want to fly" list.

This week I'm on day 3, first day sat airport standby for 5 hours, second day did nothing, and there's nothing on my schedule for day 3 right now either.

Last year I flew 501 total, granted we did get a paid month off when part of the airline shut down.
 
surreal1221 said:
Actual Credit and Paid Credit.

Do explain.

Is credit not credit at Colgan?
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Exactly right as explained above. No matter what we get our 75hr guarantee. But actual credit is basically showing how close to or over guarantee I went. The graph has much more to it, I just cut it up for this thread. Paid credit is never less than actual credit.

As for the 8 days off. We get 3hrs 45min of pay extra on top of guarantee for every day under 10 days that we work. I live in base and dont commute, and one month I basically decided to just abuse myself and work my ass off. April being that month.

Reserve line holders only get 10 days off to begin with. If I have more than 10 days its because there was a rest issue of some sort and I had to legally be given a day off.

Its also interesting to note that when I first started I was given more days off, then when ALPA was voted in, and crew planning became Pinnaclized, my days off dropped to what our ops manual says our "minimum required days off" are.
 
FlyChicaga said:
Interestingly enough, here at XJT the company/union just announced that our new reserve bypass number is 40 hours. This means if you achieve 40 hours flying time, you'll be bypassed for callout until all other reserve pilots in your base/seat reach 40 hours.

This sucks for commuters, but is great for those who live in base. It's being used as a furlough mitigation strategy for the time being.
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So it's a furlough mitigation strategy then.

At what point will the bypass number become inactive? So you know, those guys on reserve who want to fly a crap ton can, and those who do not, can sit at home playing with the TV remote.
 
FlyChicaga said:
Interestingly enough, here at XJT the company/union just announced that our new reserve bypass number is 40 hours. This means if you achieve 40 hours flying time, you'll be bypassed for callout until all other reserve pilots in your base/seat reach 40 hours.

This sucks for commuters, but is great for those who live in base. It's being used as a furlough mitigation strategy for the time being.
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Interesting. That's in our new TA over here. Perhaps the ONLY good thing for reserves in the TA, and that's all I'm gonna say on that. If this thing passes, I won't be able to look Mesa pilots in the eye.....
 
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