Originally Posted by
Jeff Lebowski
The only time you're required to answer your phone is when you are sitting reserve, return to base early from a reserve assignment and are told to remain "phone contactable," or when you are actually on duty.
Rest is rest, vacation is vacation, days off are days off. None of the shenanigans you find at certain fractionals or in the Wild West of Part 135 or 91.
And even then, you don't have to have a cell phone if you're chillin in the lounge...but that's a short leash to be on. When they tell me be phone contactable...I start driving home!