Originally Posted by
BigZatD
I've got a reserve question for you guys. I checked my schedule at 3 on my last off day and was assigned a 1200 short call the next day. Went to bed around 10p and shut my phone off. The next morning there was a message from scheduling asking me to acknowledge a trip that had a 1430 report time. They called around 12:15a. Went on to acknowledge and the trip was gone along with my 1200 short call. Just showed a res day. Was I required to answer my phone at midnight?
No.
If you acknowledged the SC then you had no obligation to check your schedule or ack the trip. They would have put the trip on your schedule and called to notify you of the trip when your SC started at noon. I always ack legal SC assignments then never ack a trip they throw on there early or the SC credit will disappear.
If you did not ack the SC then they can pull it off and put a trip on your schedule. In this case it looks like that is what happened. Since you did not ack the trip prior to 10 hours before report you were illegal to fly the trip. The contract only required you to ack the trip 3 hours prior to report in this case. SD's memo requires you to have your phone on all night and answer any call to ack a trip at any time on LC. So you should have left your phone on so they could wake you up in the middle of the night to ack the trip.