Short call and long call. Entirely up to crew schedule on who gets what. Short call = reasonably available by ground transport.
Long call = 12hr callout.
Open time gets proffered the day before starting at 12CST but no later than 5pm CST.
Yes you can pass if you are not the junior pilot in your variance group.
Groups are assigned by time variance: lowest time pilot is on the lowest group, and would get called first.
For short calls, variance is 3hr difference. So pilots with 0-3hrs for the month are in Group 1, 3-6 are in Group 2, etc.
Long call is by 10hr variance. So pilots with 0-10hrs are in Group 1 for long call, 10-20 in Group 2, etc.
No clue as to how PBS will change all this. We are supposed to get an entirely new reserve system. I don't know in what year.
Clear as mud?
