Originally Posted by
pilotluke
Thanks everyone!
Just to expound a little further, with a 12 hour call out you are completely useless to the company starting at noon. Realistically it’s much earlier than that since they have to assign you a trip that releases by 2359. If you stayed on LC all the way till midnight, the earliest you could be legal for a GS or IA would be 10 AM the next day. Putting you into rest at noon means you can do something as early as 2200 that same day, and of course anything starting the next morning.