An air carrier reserve first officer is told to contact crew scheduling about a future assignment ab...

Narrative:

Contacted crew scheduling via ACARS. Approximately 30 minutes prior to the top of descent I received a message via ACARS to contact crew scheduling. This was my third open trip of the month. So of course I start to get frustrated trying to guess what trip they would put me on. Could it be a domestic trip as I have been sent on many occasions. I'm europe qualified; so I start to wonder. They can't send me over there with two first officers short with the annual 'push to south america.' then I start to get mad that I volunteered 3 trips in december; when I start a 17 day run of reserve for february. So I tell the captain to message and we both get frustrated and wonder about management's recent message that they will stop that practice. Just don't understand how they think this practice does not effect what I'm thinking about on short final!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier Reserve First Officer is told to contact crew scheduling about a future assignment about 30 minutes before the descent for landing begins. The Pilot is upset and has trouble concentrating.

Narrative: Contacted crew scheduling via ACARS. Approximately 30 minutes prior to the top of descent I received a message via ACARS to contact crew scheduling. This was my third open trip of the month. So of course I start to get frustrated trying to guess what trip they would put me on. Could it be a domestic trip as I have been sent on many occasions. I'm Europe qualified; so I start to wonder. They can't send me over there with two first officers short with the annual 'push to South America.' Then I start to get mad that I volunteered 3 trips in December; when I start a 17 day run of reserve for February. So I tell the Captain to message and we both get frustrated and wonder about management's recent message that they will stop that practice. Just don't understand how they think this practice does not effect what I'm thinking about on short final!

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	930691
Time
Date	201101
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Route In Use	Oceanic
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

An air carrier reserve first officer is told to contact crew scheduling about a future assignment about 30 minutes before the descent for landing begins. The pilot is upset and has trouble concentrating.