Long call reserve?

bike21

bike21

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For those of you who are fortunate to have this QOL item how does it work?

- what are the times of actual reserve duty? (6am - 6pm for instance)?
- how soon are you expected to call back?
- is it easy to be in another city and make your call out period? i.e. sitting reserve at home when based many miles away.
- how do you bid for it? does each reserve get a chance to do long call?

Thanks for any input! :)
 
bike21 said:
For those of you who are fortunate to have this QOL item how does it work?

- what are the times of actual reserve duty? (6am - 6pm for instance)?
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24 hours a day phone availability starting at 0000 on the first day of the block of days and ending at 1200 on the last day. Twelve hour callout.

bike21 said:
how soon are you expected to call back?
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A long call reserve pilot must call back crew scheduling within two hours.

bike21 said:
is it easy to be in another city and make your call out period? i.e. sitting reserve at home when based many miles away.
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I have flown with numerous pilots who could sit long call at home and commute in with a commuter clause flight to spare. The city pair obviously has to have a good amount of flights to do this. There can also be a 'danger zone' the night before, such as if scheduling calls at 9PM with a 9AM report time. Those that sit reserve at home and have to commute in after being called just have to have a plan for what to do if scheduling calls at whatever hour of the day.

bike21 said:
- how do you bid for it?
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The reserve lines are all in the secondary monthly bid after the hard lines have been awarded. A pilot bidding reserve lines could simply put the long call lines ahead of the various short-call (2 hour callout at my company) lines. Sometimes, if none of the long call lines have weekends off, they might not be as hard to get.

bike21 said:
does each reserve get a chance to do long call?
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Where I work, yes. A minimum of ten percent of the reserve lines must be long-call lines.
 
Long Call Reserves are classified as Line Holders per our contract and as such we get minimum pay (4.5 hrs) per LC day whether or not we break guarantee or not. Long Call reserves get their schedule by bidding "relief" lines, or lines that have nothing on them. These lines are made up of all the other scheduling conflicts that other lines create when awarded. Typically you'll see Long Call days on relief lines on months where we are over staffed.

Long Call days must be given to the pilot 2 days in advance, by 6PM EST. So if you have a LC day on the 9th let's say they must notify you by 6PM on the 7th. You don't really need to call them back normally because they will just leave a message as to what the trip is, then you check online and can see the pairing. I call back to confirm it but I don't believe there is any set time limit like a typical reserve will have.

In this way a lot of people bid these lines and commute in when and if called. They can assign trips a month in advance if they want to to Long Call reserves so sometimes you will know really far ahead what you are doing.

This was my January Schedule. I ended up with 17 days off but 105 credit. Not too bad, although relief/long call lines are a bit like gambling.

01 Trip
02 Trip
03 LC DAY OFF (OPEN TIME PICKUP AFTER RELEASED)
04 LC DAY OFF (OPEN TIME PICKUP AFTER RELEASED)
05 OFF WITH PAY (OPEN TIME PICKUP AFTER RELEASED)
06 (OPEN TIME PICKUP)
07
08
09 LC DAY OFF
10 LC DAY OFF
11 LC DAY OFF
12 LC DAY OFF
13
14
15
16 LC TRIP
17 LC TRIP
18 LC TRIP
19 LC DAY OFF
20
21
22
23 LC TRIP
24 LC TRIP
25 LC TRIP
26 LC TRIP
27
28
29
30
 
At my company, Long Call is a great option while on reserve. I sit at home while on long call. We have two types, long call 1 and Long call 2. On LC1 you have to be phone available from 0500 to 1500. You have to call them back within 15 minutes, and on LC1 the company has to give you 9 hrs to report. On LC2 reserve windows, you have to be phone available from 0700 to 0900 & 1700 to 1900, call back within 15 minutes as well but the company has to give you 12 hrs to report for your assignment.
 
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