Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
So if I'm a LC guy and they put a trip on my schedule I'm not going to ack the trip until 3 hours prior. They will then tell me I'm not legal for it and go see the chief because you didn't ack it. Then can't they give me the exact same trip as a GS with less than 12 hours to report? Once they run out of short call guys all the LC guys could take the trip as a GS with less than 12 to report and get GS pay for at least day one of the trip right?
I don't think so. The way I understand it (note the extreme caveat
) is you wouldn't have had your 10 hours Rest, with 8 hour uninterrupted sleep opportunity, prior to taking the trip. Unless I'm missing something, and it's going to change under 117, you are not on Rest when you are on long call. This is the whole reason they are trying to force a 10+ hour prior-to-report acknowledgement in the first place.
I think the <12 hour LC GS's are going to be just as illegal as a <10 hour IA, unless they can grab you between 12 and 10 hours prior, for a report that is <12 hours in the future - that's a pretty tight window.