Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
They certainly can do that.
Well that sucks.
Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
They could, but what would be the point? If you're on an X-day, you're already at rest. If you're on two or more X-days, you'll be coming off of more than 30 hours' rest on your first on-call day.
You're correct. I got carried away with my hypothetical.
But the issue remains for the single x-day. The fact that they could (if indeed they can) just tack on 6 hours of "rest" (on your first on-call day) towards your 30/7 just doesn't seem right.
Now for the bonus question. If scheduling did assign (prospectively for this example) the first 6 hours of your first on-call day as counting towards your 30, how does this change a pilot's obligation to check his schedule on the x-day prior? My gut tells me that, by this change, the x-day is no longer the last "non-fly" day. Therefore, the first on-call day becomes the last (albeit partial) non-fly day and would therefore fall under 23 S 1. d. 2, thus requiring a pilot to check his schedule within 2 hours after the end of such non-fly day, i.e. check schedule by 0800. What say you?