Originally Posted by
Fly Casual
A 1 day GS should have worked too. PB days are supposed to cover the next Reserve Day. In addition, you should receive 9 hours free from duty immediately following the end of the GS trip, marked as a PR day if it falls into a new day. With that new non-fly day, they can then schedule a trip that starts 10 hours after the PB or PR ends.
The explanation isn't quite correct. PB days do not cover up whole reserve days. It's only math. If your GS ends on your first on call day at 0100, it's 9 hours free of duty from there, so 1000 then 24 hours free of duty for each interrupted x day. The PR day is technically the payback day.