Originally Posted by
neodd
I guess I still don't get it.
I'm on the last day of my LC block. No assignment. Tomorrow is an X-day. I've been assigned 30hrs rest at 1800 tonight (at least I think I'm reading that correctly, 1800 on the 14th to 0000 on the 15th, is that 30hrs or 6?)
What is my obligation to the company right now at 1000 on my last LC day?
Do I still need to be contactable, or rather, respond to any attempted contact?
The only thing they can assign me is rest as early as immediately or 2 hours from now if I don't acknowledge?
Can they assign me a trip reporting in 18hrs (tomorrow) on my X-day?
If they can't assign me a trip but do anyway, is that fly now grieve later?
If the only thing they can assign me is rest, why not just give me rest at 0600? Waiting to 1800 just restricts my ability to pickup off-day flying 12 hours later than it could be, right?
Legally? You are on call until your rest begins. They can interrupt a non-golden x day to give you a trip tomorrow.
Realistically? If they already gave you rest AND there are people left available in the reserve grid, you are pretty much done. You are free to call and get released and they'll likely release you.
To your last question: if they give you rest at 1800, you can pick up a GS starting at 0400. How is that restrictive?