First of all, grow a spine.
1. Get there early and read the required paperwork. No one looks down on you for that one.
2. Yes you take into account CI 250, short taxi, etc. You do what YOU can. When you hit that time, it’s over. Read the first line.
3. No crew, not your problem. Land in TPE. Get your required rest and then go back to work. Read the first line.
4. Not adequately rested. See the HK ANO’s, it your responsibility. Submit an MOR. Read the first line.
What happens when you don’t have enough fuel to make Hong Kong and there is no crew in TPE, continue to Hong Kong?
Good luck with that payrise. Sometimes it has to be short term pain for long term gain, but it’s all about me.
Most Captains don’t have the backbone and the F/O or S/O should not have to stick his head up. You’re the Captain, make the call.
So if the F/O or S/O does not want to go, you most likely would say to crew control “Yes I would like to continue but it’s the F/O’s or S/O will not do it”. Make the junior officers pay. You just say “I am not using discretion”. They can ask you why and the answer should be “I don’t get good rest on the aircraft and I’m fatigued”.
404 Titan,
How MSS was presented to the AOA Members was flawed.
MSS should have been presented as “opportunity”. If you have an opportunity, you take it. MSS or contract compliance (call it what you will, it’s the same thing) has many opportunities
For example, if you ask an engineer about a problem with the aircraft and he says it is fine verbally, then ask him to write it in the Maintenance Log. If it is fine, there is not a problem. If he doesn’t, now there seems to be a problem. Why? Maybe he doesn’t want to take the delay by fixing it. By putting it in the Maintenance Log you are covering you’re a$$. That’s opportunity.
If you are presented with making a decision about discretion, that’s opportunity as with reduction of rest, flying on G days, or anything Liam said, etc. Read the first line.
What does MSS mean to you?
The AFTL's are part of your contract, work to it, No More, no less.