Originally Posted by
dualinput
When you self notify before your RAP you are released to the show time of the trip, no longer phone liable or on duty at the beginning of the RAP. Therefore your duty period starts at the beginning of the trip. Self notifying can really help a commuter by being able to take later flights or even not commute in the day prior. However it does change when your duty starts and as a result when you time out.
Exactly. Say you are on R16 and are assigned a trip starting at 2000. If you self notify your time starts at 2000, whereas is you wait for them to notify you at 1600, your time starts then. That’s a 4 hour difference.
It’s a minor detail but can mean the difference of timing out or working a very late red eye if something happens to delay the flight.