Originally Posted by
Jughead135
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.)
The start of an on call day does not break the rest clock if a trip is assigned on your last non-fly day. 23.S.5.d. and e. does seem to give latitude for trip assignment 12 hours before the end of an off day (except vacation). The pilot is responsible to ascertain if they have been assigned a trip and has no obligation for contact
24 hours prior to the assigned report. Previous language was
12 hours. That would seem to allow FRMS rest prior to the trip by providing 24 hours free from obligation.
Old PWA language 23.S.3.d.e will not be required to remain available for contact in the
12 hours prior to the scheduled report of an assigned rotation.
New PWA language 23.S.5.d.e will not be required to remain available for contact in the
24 hours prior to the scheduled report of an assigned rotation.