Comments on: A hitchiker’s guide to commuting http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=69 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: cwright http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=69&cpage=1#comment-26 cwright Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:24:11 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=69#comment-26 Eric,
Maybe “fogged” isn’t the right term, but you are correct in that there are specific distinctions between the terms “commuting” (the act of going to and from work), non-reving (utilizing pass privileges to fly for little or no money, and which may be used as a tool for commuting, but usually is used for pleasure travel) and jumpseating (technically the act of riding on the cockpit jumpseat on another carrier, but is a term often used synonomously [if not always correctly] with either non-reving or commuting, and as you said, is controlled by the PIC of the flight and governed by reciprocal agreements between carriers).

As for NetJets, my intent was to point out that you can live anywhere you wish among their designated home-base cities, and, as you said, if the trip (tour, in NJA parlance) will not start there because the plane is not there, then NJ will provide positive space transportation to where ever the pilot needs to be. In other words, it is not like airline commuting. Any confusion was not intentional, and thanks for the correction.

]]> By: Eric Schmitt http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=69&cpage=1#comment-22 Eric Schmitt Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:20:41 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=69#comment-22 Chip, your commute has fogged your mind. You have used Commuting and Jump Seating or Non-Reving as interchangeable terms and they are not. To correct you, Jump seating is a professional courtesy extended between pilot groups when said groups have authority over their respective observer seat on an aircraft. The agreements are reciprocal in nature, each party generally offers the same seats on the same basis to each other.

Some pilots do use their Jumpseat agreements to Commute to work.

You specifically cite my employer NetJets and state the Company provides positive space tickets for commuting. This is absolutely not correct. NetJets pilots are responsible for reporting to their assigned base at the beginning of their tours.The Company plays no role in facilitating this. If the assigned aircraft is not at this location, the company must transport the pilots to the aircraft.

NetJets pilots can not offer a Jumpseat to other pilot groups, and as such has no agreements in place. Additionally, because of abuse of repositioning flight by Management, the ability of a NetJets pilot to ride on a ferry flight has been revoked.

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