Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
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.
It is accurate if you haven't been assigned a trip. Say you have 8am-10pm reserve. They can't call and assign you a trip that goes over 14hrs. (They can assign you a trip that would originally end by 10pm but because delay etc... Push it to 16hrs, but the original assignment has to end within 14hrs ie 10pm). What this means is, in this example, at 7pm you are useless to fly a trip. We have 3hrs to push the plane from the time you are notified. So you are useless. Our shortest trip in the system is about 1 hour block, plus you get 30 minutes after blocking in counted as part of your duty time, so it is more realistic that you are finished after 5:30 or 9.5 hours.
Now if you call after 530pm or so and ask to be released, they might not do so only as it prohibits the schedulers from assigning a trip to you until you start reserve the following day. IE they would have to wait until 10:01am to call you and you would have until 1:01pm to push off the gate. If you are not released they can still call you at 959pm for a 10am departure and that is completely legal.
Clear as mud? Doesn't help that I'm typing on a dumb phone.