Originally Posted by
hookshot123
Would this also apply to Delta's requirement to check your schedule by 2am on your first on call day?
Seems like I remember this scenario being discussed before:
If you voluntarily check it at 3pm the day prior, all is well. If you wait to check it at 2am on your first on call day and you are assigned a morning short call, then you just interupted your required rest.
Capt. Hook
I'm not a DL pilot (just like reading this thread), so I don't know your rules. In my opinion if the company requires you to do something (call or acknowledge a schedule change) on a day off, and that is written someplace FOM, CBA. Than that is not rest.
My current DCI carrier insists on calling you the day before a set of reserve days to assign you a reserve period (all short call). It isn't written anywhere that you HAVE to answer and depending on who you talk to what your responsibility on day 1 of reserve isn't really clear if you haven't acknowledged your reserve window. I've asked and no one seems to give or a a second though. Luckily it never was an issue for me, yet.
It was specifically in the FOM and CBA at Comair that you had to call in or check your schedule the day before reserve stint. So it seemed like a pretty easy arguement that you had a responsibility to the company. I have no idea who makes the decision. (POI, FSDO, etc)