Originally Posted by tennisguru

Any time you have a transition trip REG to RES, the trip counts towards your reserve days of work in PBS. Any block/DH/duty credit from days in the RES bid period, plus any trip credit which pays on the last day, go towards your RES guarantee. Pay/no credit items like SIT, EDP, and Holiday pay would pay above the reserve guarantee on the reserve month.

When you finish your rotation you are a reserve pilot and must do your post-rotation schedule check, and scheduling can assign you another rotation or SC starting as early as 18 hours from release. Also, transition trip trading is locked during the PBS processing window, so once the RES month schedule is posted, if you drop or swap out of the spill trip, any days in the RES month covered by that trip revert to LC.

Originally Posted by bugman61

You go on 18 hour long call at release from the trip.

Reserves are awarded X days and other preassigned activities. Any time that you don’t have something awarded (or where the pwa otherwise states you are not on call like before/after CQ) you are on call. A lineholder who has a transition trip into a reserve month immediately goes on call at release. If they subsequently trade/drop the trip the entire time in the subsequent month becomes on call time.

Originally Posted by tennisguru

There is a big difference between a REG trip that spills into a RES month, and a REG trip that ends on the last day of the bid period with LC starting the next day. A spill trip, as I said on my post above, ends with you as a reserve pilot with the required post-rotation schedule check. Assuming no future assignment you go immediately onto LC upon release from the rotation. If a REG pilot ends a trip on the last day of the bid period, they are still a REG pilot and have no required schedule check. That day is also not a non-fly day so there is no way for scheduling to assign them an early report on their first day of LC. They just start LC at midnight on the first day of the bid period and scheduling must contact them at that point to assign anything starting at 1800 or later.