For future reference don’t call them. It’s their job to exercise operational control and place you on rest. Let them do their job*.

If they try to assign you a trip later in the week, and you have not been prospectively placed on rest for at least 30 hours in the past 168, you are not legal to accept the trip.

As a real world example, last month they never placed me on rest (nobody called and no CNO). Around day 8 of a reserve stretch, heading into the weekend, a scheduler called to assign a 4 day trip.

I asked him to check and see where I had received 30 in 168. He said it’s on your schedule a couple days ago (this is why the computer didn’t flag it as illegal). I then asked him to check to see when I had been noticed for that rest. After a long hold he came back, removed the 4 day and placed me on 30 hours of rest, beginning then…prospectively as is required.

They’ve been doing this a lot lately and the only way it’s going to stop is if we stop fixing it for them. Know your PWA and FARs and hold them to it. Had I accepted that trip it would have been an FAR violation.




*you are not required to continuously monitor icrew/MiCrew. They place stuff on schedules all the time that ends up getting removed. I have stopped looking and now just wait for the call.