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LOBO
Example:
On your first on call day following your last non-fly day, you check your schedule at 0200 base time. After that check, you are then required to acknowledge a trip assignment no less than 3 hours before sign-in (the earliest rotation/SC assignment is 0500 on your first on-call day). Scheduling has assigned you a rotation that reports at 0600. Are you legal?
NO. According to FAR 117, you are not legal because you need at least 10 hours rest before starting a flight duty period. In this scenario, the earliest report for a rotation is 1200 (i.e., you acknowledge assignment at 0200, add 10 hours of rest, which brings you to 1200).
You only are legal for the 1200 report if you acknowledge the assignment at least 10:00 prior to report.
Should you choose to exercise your rights under the PWA to its fullest and acknowledge the assignment at say 3:01 prior to report(no less than 3 hours before report), you will be illegal by FAR and yet fully in compliance with the PWA!
It's an interesting scenario....