Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Not true. If you fly a 1 day GS/IA which releases before 1500, or if you have a mix of 1 (single) X-day and Res which releases before 1500, you will only get a PR.
Remember, a PB is, in reality, a 24-hour X day which begins/ends at other than midnight. The “PR” is simply how the end time is represented on the midnight-based calendar.
Here’s what most people miss:
you essentially get PB time paid over days of work. Even though you were originally off, a
GS over an X day turns that day into a day of work, so your PB timer starts as soon as you are released 30 minutes after block in. It’s counterintuitive, because you’re getting time off over time that was already off.
So if you do a quick morning turn on an X day and release at noon, most just assume you get 1 full PB day covering your next LC day, but in fact your X day is now a day of work, so you get the 9 hours, which in this example takes you to 2100, then you get a full 24 hours off, so in this example you’d just see a single PR till 2100 on your schedule.
As pilots we just think that an X day is always an X day, and since PB time goes over LC days they don’t factor in the X day getting partial PB time over it.