Originally Posted by
Dragon7
You bet. Learned the hard way this past summer to punch the timer on my phone once i sent the Acars report at end of trip. They have 15 mins to call you. After that, not required to answer. "Trolling" is the exact right word in the fishing sense not the internet sense. Scheduling is just looking for somebody to answer the phone. i answered once by mistake. Dumb.
Unless you're referring to a different part of the contract, once blocked in the UPA puts us back on LSR immediately. We are on call and we have to answer the phone from then on, not just for 15 minutes. There is no more post trip release to a rest period. If they call us to assign then we will be released to a rest period prior to the next trip, but there is no more free from duty post trip like there was before.
The caveat of course is if they mistakenly fail to put "LSR" on the master schedule after blockin then, as always, the master schedule is king and we don't have to answer until the next time shown on the master schedule. This is why a screenshot immediately after blockin is highly recommended. If the master shows nothing until the next day's 0001 LSR then, yes, we can ignore calls until then. My last few trips they have become more disciplined about this. They'll actually out LSR on the schedule that overlaps the scheduled blockin by 30 minutes or so, so even I blockin early it shows LSR immediately. Earlier they were waiting until blockin to put LSR on there but would forget. If you got the screenshot before they got it on there then too bad, phone off. Now they preload it.