Originally Posted by
tennisguru
It’s the golden days that matter. If your first day following LC is a golden day (**, not xx in icrew) then it is known that you are auto released at 0600 and no contact is required. If it is a standard X day you must get a CNO notification for it to count.
OK. That was my understanding also. Figured I was missing something. In this case, the following day was "TOFF" (payback day applied) so not a hard non-fly day.
EDIT: Just found that Reserve PB Day is considered a "hard non-fly day" in the scheduling reference document.