Originally Posted by
AluminBird
On standby in the airlines, are you not able to simply sleep through until whatever time you like and choose to be woken by the standby call?
Forgive my ignorance!
Absolutely correct.
But consider you would have gone to bed early the night before to accomodate a 0600 call-out, so sleeping in will be tough. And if you do sleep in to accomodate the possibility of a 1759 call-out, consider that you may be on standby again at 0600 the following morning and now unable to get the early night you require.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that its all well and good saying 'crew responsibilities' - but to be rested enough for a standby callout at the beginning and end of a 12 hour standby, especialliy with multiple days of it in a row, is (in my experience) impossible.