Originally Posted by
PiperPower
Correct me if I'm wrong... But just because they keep your FDP clock running, you have no obligation to answer the phone if they call. If you finish your last leg on your last day, with 6 hours remaining on your FDP, and 15 minutes after block in you've heard nothing you're free.
You're not on reserve, and according to 117 you can't be put back on reserve until you've been given 10 hours rest. Some guys don't agree and they consider themselves on the hook for the remainder of the day, sit at the airport, missing all their flights home for the day. I don't think that's right.
Your reserve availability period is considered your FDP. People are confusing the little "FDP" they see in the Flica app as something it's not. If there's time left on your reserve availability period, even after a flight, they can call you. The 10 hours rest, etc. is for lineholders, which is defined in 117. Reserve pilots get their 10 hours after completing a reserve availability period which is, again, considered their FDP. Flica says FDP during and after a flight assigned to a reserve pilot because that's how the system works. It doesn't mean they're extending anything. Just something they have to put in there to make old technology work right.
This was also said in the ALPA call. They sounded a little surprised that anyone would even think they didn't have to answer their phone on reserve after completing a flight.