Originally Posted by
Gulfasaurus
Just to verify because all the above discussion has me slightly confused, are schedule checks required on Short Call? It's happened twice already where a trip was placed on my schedule comfortably within my SC window and I never got a call from scheduling, just the CNO. Once the trip was placed before the start of the SC window, and one time after. I never acknowledged anything in MiCrew or Icrew, didn't pick up the CNO call, but still never got a call or voicemail from a real person. The second time I didn't even acknowledge or sign in until sitting in the plane at D-15 and still no call.
They were both good trips for me so I showed up anyway, but I'm not going to do it again. My understanding is that on SC even if you check your schedule they still need to call you. CNO counts as notification for conversion to SC but not for a SC assignment. Am I missing something?
Maybe....
IF you did the whole non contactable first two hours thing then yes, you are required to check your schedule NLT that the end of the 2 hour window....PWA states "During this period of unavailability, the pilot assumes responsibility for acknowledging any rotation placed on their line by checking their schedule via DBMS or contacting Crew Scheduling."
Outside of that, no there is no required schedule check. Start your SC and don't look at icrew/micrew/VRU...wait for the call....maybe it comes, maybe it doesn't.
CNO call/voicemail (not text, not Micrew) *ONLY* counts for being informed you have been assigned SC. It does NOT count for being informed you have been assigned a rotation....that must come from a live schduler phone call.
The second time I didn't even acknowledge or sign in until sitting in the plane at D-15 and still no call.....why were you sitting in the plane at all? You were never notified so how did you know you even had a rotation? Stop doing schedulings job for them!
So a "good trip for you" means you prevented some other pilot from maybe getting a green slip to cover the trip becuase scheduling can't do their job corretly, or maybe some pilot would have been RR'd didn't get additional RR pay becuase you flew a trip you really shouldn't have The contract is a the contract for a reason....please let it play out the way its suppsoed to.