Originally Posted by
Lobaeux
Here's one for the mil guys that shocked me!
On reserve (like being on Bravo, you have a three hour call out), they can't call you up one hour before your reserve period ends and have you go fly a 16 hour day. Your reserve pairing may be for four days, but you only sit for one day at a time (unless you get called in, then it's just a regular trip), so say your reserve period for that day ends at 1700, you're not going to get a call at 1600 to go fly a trip that day. Plus, like Joey says, you're auto-released 6 hours prior to the end of your final reserve day.
I'm sure it's like this at other airlines, but this one was a huge difference between mil vs. 121.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. Your call time is a call time so they can call you at 1600 even if your call time ends at 1700 if they can fit you into the legal duty limits.
Example: you have been on a trip that gets done at 2300 your reserve day on the next day is scheduled at 0300-1700. Because you need domicile rest you can't go on call until 1000 making your new call time 1000-1700. They can call you at 1659 and give you a 1959 push for anything that would keep you within the scheduled duty limits. I want to say its 14hrs.