Starscream

Just one thing to add — it’s not a 3pm hard time on a day prior to RSV days, it’s 9 hours prior to the start of RSV. There will be instances where your RSV day does not start at 12am (usually because of partial payback day or required 30/168 rest on your schedule after finishing a trip). If the assignment is on your schedule 9hrs before your RSV obligation starts, then you have a 10hr leash from the start of your RSV day. If the assignment is not on your schedule 9hrs prior, then you have a 12hr leash (normal LC callout time). Hence the 3pm day prior for a normal day off to RSV timeframe dictating 10am/12pm report times/SC begin times.

Regarding partial payback (PB) days, those come into play once you start figuring out Green Slips. That’s another discussion, but given how short we are, you’ll want to figure this out ASAP. A Green Slip is a premium pay award to fly on some/all of your days off. Under our RSV system, there is absolutely no reason not to fly one unless the trip falls on a day where
you have some outside-of-work obligation that you cannot miss. When flying a GS on RSV, you are awarded payback days (PB) that fall on your subsequent RSV days with pay above guarantee depending on how much flying occurred on your days off. When you are criticially short staffed and on RSV, the last thing you want to do is fly RSV trips on your RSV days when you can fly trips
on your days off unless you have something you absolutely can’t miss. Also a great way to get a day off that you couldn’t otherwise get (i.e. PB days from a GS touching a RSV day that you needed/wanted off but couldn’t hold with the PBS bid). Learn this stuff ASAP. Once you get through your OEs, this stuff becomes the next critical thing to learn.