Originally Posted by
gloopy
If he acknowledged the noon SC, then he would have been completely legal to do the 14:30ish trip. They may have called after midnight but they didn't have to, and he didn't have to answer. As far as he knew, he had SC at noon so that's when the phone comes on. Even if they tried to stick it to him with the SD fantasy 2 hour leash memo, that had nothing to do with anything, as he still had over 2 hours had they just waited til start of SC to call again.
Originally Posted by
APCLurker
You had already acknowledged your sc assignment. You were not required to answer your phone at midnight. Per our contract you have no obligation to immediately respond to a long-call assignment during the two hours that you were on long-call (0000-0200, 10 prior to the start of your short call).
And yes, it seems they could have just given you the assignment at 1200 when your short call started. Why they didn't is a good question.
That's all why I said it was a critical piece of info whether he ack'ed the short call.
You guys are correct when you say that they could have just called him at noon and given him the trip as a short call assignment.
You are both wrong about the midnight obligation though. Look close in iCrew at the Reserve Availability List. Guys coming off X days who are put on short call for the following day at noon have 2 hours of long call from midnight to 2 AM. Its right there under the RAW GROUP and DAYS AVAIL. You have to have your phone on during those 2 hours or check your schedule at 2 AM.
(that is -- in Dickson's world only. Under the "real" contract the last non-fly day schedule check still works) .