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Old 21st Sep 2019, 12:54
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witwiw
 
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Pacific Wings, are you sure you are being rostered to FTDL limits "particularly on the Air Vanuatu services"?

An opportunity to examine the schedule and relevant duty sheets showed the longest rostered duty is VLI-AKL-VLI-BNE on a Wednesday. Duty starts at 0050Z (11:50 local) and finishes at 1345Z (23:45 local) - just on 13 hours. That is rostered as a three-man crew and is preceded by the Tuesday being completely off after having arrived in VLI at 11:50am (local) on Monday following a single BNE-VLI sector. Hardly seems onerous to me.

The next longest rostered duty is VLI-NAN-VLI-BNE on a Friday. Duty total is less than ten hours (start at 0410Z and end at 1345Z) - a two-man crew for three sectors. Do you really find that arduous? Of course, delays sometimes happen to increase the rostered duty but that is part of aviation.

All other rostered duties on the NF flying are less in both time and sectors and although rest opportunities between successive duties have to be considered, they don't appear to be anywhere near minimum rest.

Your beef about the NF flying would gain some credibility if you gave some examples of where you "are being rostered to FTD limits consistently, particularly on the Air Vanuatu services" but, keep in mind if you do, there are some on here who will be able to verify or, more than likely, refute them.

As a matter of interest, the odd Brisbane-Nauru-Brisbane return is a longer duty (almost eleven hours and thirty minutes) but only two sectors - but how often do you do one of those? It's often only one way then get off.

The latest version of the schedule with all the changes is even kinder so it would appear the company is addressing matters slowly and your grievances evaporating. Good luck with the ATSB (or even CASA).

Finally, a check of the records shows that in June 2015 there were 22 pilots on the books, not "At that time, we had over 30 pilots." Of those 22, two were on alternating month-on/month-off rosters (reducing that 22 to effectively 21) and one pilot was casual. I challenge you to name the 30 plus pilots you claim were there, I can name the 22.

Like someone said - former employee with an axe to grind and not letting any facts get in the way of their agenda.



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