Originally Posted by
Gunfighter
Yes. It looks like the language permits FRMS assignments on Xdays prior to reserve. In the past this was not the practice due to FRMS required rest. Even though the pilot does not have a contact obligation it seems to be the day prior assignment fulfills the FRMS rest obligation. I need a reread of FRMS rules alongside a comparison of old and new reserve language to confirm.
Disagree. When you start your first on-call day, you break any rest you may have.
Now, if CS goes fishing & the pilot ack’s a rest & trip ahead of time, that’s a different story—the moral of which is, “Never ack anything when you don’t have a contact obligation.”
(I gather there’s some FRMS carve out where they can assign the rest before you go off your
previous on-call block, I’m not addressing that possibility.)