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11-22-2015 | 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Tee1Up

I actually had this exact same scenario yesterday. I had a 9 day reserve stretch. Converted to short call on the first 4 days and then left on LC for day 5. Converted to SC on day 6 and then put into a 30 hour rest (that they notified me about). 16 hours into my 30 hour rest, they put a trip on my line that reported 8.5 hours after I started LC again. I called ALPA scheduling to ask if this was ok. The short answer was "yes...the 30-hour rest period is treated like your last X-day prior to a reserve period. So as long as they have the trip on your line 9 hours prior to when you go back on LC, then it is a legal assignment." Take it for what it's worth, but I just fought that monkey yesterday.

Whoever told you that was wrong.

Check out these FAA "interpretations":

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...rpretation.pdf

and page 14176 of this one:

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...rification.pdf

ii. Requirement To Perform a Task

During a Rest Period

A4A and ALPA asked whether

carriers could require a pilot to check a

calendar, text, or email during a rest

period. AE asked whether a pilot could

check the schedule/calendar voluntarily

during a rest period.

During a rest period, a crewmember

must be free from all restraint by the

certificate holder.

38 If a crewmember is

required to do something by the

certificate holder, then that

crewmember is not free from all

restraint, and that crewmember is not on

a valid rest period. Accordingly, a

certificate holder cannot require a

flightcrew member to perform any tasks

during a rest period, including tasks

such as checking the schedule/calendar,

checking a text message, or checking an

email message.

However, if a flightcrew member

performs a task of his/her own volition

without being required to perform the

task by the certificate holder, then that

task is not a restraint imposed by the

certificate holder. Thus, it is permissible

for a flightcrew member to voluntarily

decide to check the schedule/calendar

during his or her rest period. We

emphasize, however, that a flightcrew

member’s decision to perform a task

during a rest period must be entirely

voluntary.

The way I understand our rule for the "9 hour prior" check is that Delta got around these interpretations on an X day when we dropped the requirement for reserves to acknowledge assignments.
That's the whole reason our reserve "acknowledgements" went away. To get around this rule on a last X day that is part of a 30 hour break.

But - Our contractual requirement to perform this check only applies to a "last X day" and NOT to an assigned rest period.

Interpretations Associated with 14 CFR Part 117