Originally Posted by
index
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.
As the Company has always used even a single X-day to count as a pilot's 24 in 7 rest requirement, I'm not sure I see the issue in giving him notice ahead of time that his time off will now end at 0600 rather than midnight the night before to give him 30 hours. He gets extra time off, and it counts as his rest.
What am I missing?
Originally Posted by
index
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?
If we ever get back to the last non-fly-day schedule check, I would agree with you. Right now, the Company has had to relieve us of this obligation in order to ensure that our rest on that last non-fly-day is not broken. As I understand it, the pilot goes on call at 0600 and will be assigned flying or short call beginning no earlier than 1800 -- 12 hours later.