Originally Posted by
kfahmi
Can you clarify those? I'm afraid I'm clueless as to what 'self-notification' means and what 'release into rest' means...
Oh, and another thing. One crew I recently jumpseated with told me that if you're commuting to reserve, and you're home on your day off, try calling CS the morning of your day off to see if they have any reserve trips out of the domicile nearest your home. If they do, and they put you on a trip, then now you've gotten out of the need to commute halfway across the country to sit reserve. Or, ask them if they need anyone for TDY in the base nearest your home, since you'll be sitting at home and not incurring hotel costs.
Do either of those tactics ever work?
Release into rest is where they call you during a RAP and "put you into rest" (10 hours) in order to make you legal to accept a trip you normally would be illegal to take.
Example-
4AM-4PM reserve gets a call at 8AM that he's now on rest with a show time of 6PM and fly until 1AM.
OR
9AM-9PM Reserve gets called at 8PM, released into rest for a 6AM show time the following day.
If CS says, "We're releasing you into rest" you don't have to do it, and shouldn't because if some accident or violation occurred you'd have a hell of a time explaining how you were properly rested.
I would not call CS on a day off for ANY reason. Say you're a PM RSV (9A-9P), it's the day before your string of 4 days. You are planning on commuting from SFO-MSP or wherever on the early flight and landing in domicile at 9AM, for PM reserves the earliest you can show is 11AM (2 hour call out). If you talk to CS on that day off they could force an early show time on you, requiring you to fly in on a day off or miss it entirely because there's no flights that work and you'd be stuck with the ding on your attendance.