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.
Originally Posted by
CBreezy
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.
Originally Posted by
tennisguru
If you do a 1 day GS that releases before 1500 will only get you a PR on your next LC day, not a full PB day.
But to your point if there was already a trip assigned on that LC day that should be dropped.
To try to wrap this all together, a PB "Day" isn't a calendar day....the PB "Day" is a 24hr period that starts at some random time other than midnight.
That random time is 9 hours after rotation release, then 24 hours for each non-fly day interrupted.
Because icrew/DBMS is so technologically advanced, it has trouble when things don't fit nicely into the calendar day box of 0000-2359. So if that 24hr period touches midnight, icrew will show it as PB on that calendar day...then everything from midnight to 2359 the next calendar day will show as PR. In fact your PR "day" could end at 2358 and you could have 1 minute of LC.