Originally Posted by
johnso29
This has always been my understanding. If someone knows this to be wrong, please correct me.
Your SC is 12 hours in duration. The end time is simply the end of your SC (3 hours notice to departure) period. While SC is not considered duty, it is also not rest. You must be able to look 24 hours back from your release and find 8 hours free from duty. Therefore, if you're assigned a trip off SC your release time for tomorrow should not exceed 16 hours from the beginning of your SC.
Example-SC starts @ 0600. At 1700 scheduling calls you for a 2030 departure. You're scheduled to arrive @ 2230. Look back 24 hours & you don't have your 8 hours(SC started @ 0600 so you only had 7.5 hours) You can't do the assignment.
FWIW, there can be situations where you need more than 8 hours of rest. If you roll off a high value 2 day rotation where you were on reduced rest for your RON, you may require compensatory rest.
If they try to stick you on a short call prior to the end of compensatory rest (which can be up to 12 hours in some cases), you can't accept.
I've seen a couple guys burned on this, so any time you hit a RON (or back at base with a subsequent trip or SC) with less than scheduled layover time AND less than 10 hours, make sure you do the math.
Chances are the computer will flag it over night, but they'll just call while you're on the way to the airport to tell you "don't report for an hour".
Nu