Originally Posted by TED74

As a local I want to make sure my understanding is correct…

For a 1600 SC start time on Jan 2, I call scheduling around noon on January 1st soon after the SC was assigned and tell them I will be uncontactable. I may or may not actually be notified of this SC based on things and other things.

[If I and the hundreds of pilots on SC across the system all do this we will inundate the phones - works for me!]

At 1601 on Jan 2 I log into Icrew and check my schedule. There shouldn’t be anything there that reports any sooner than 1800 on Jan 2.

[If there is something there reporting between 1600 and 1759, I call scheduling and they must remove this assignment. With less than two hours until report to this non-compliant rotation, they’ve now bought a late report and probably a late departure]

Having simply viewed my schedule on iCrew (not Micrew) at 1601, I have a two-ish hour leash that will now continue until the end of my SC. If there was something posted reporting at 1800 or later, I’ll roughly make report time (give or take some minutes for traffic and give or take a LOT of minutes for NYC/co-terminal considerations).

If I don’t look at my schedule until 1730 having already told them I am uncontactable, I am self-warned that I only have roughly thirty minutes between becoming aware of the rotation and report time. If there’s nothing on my schedule when I check it at 1730, I really needn’t report any earlier than 1930ish.

So what happens when I am on an X day, get a rotation assigned the next day, and before I have called to declare myself non-contactable, they give me a lSC assignment reporting 30 minutes into my SC period? Does my subsequent call to declare myself non-contactable have the power to wipe this assignment out? Have we pressed to test this yet?

Will I receive any notification of a SC assignment that is placed on my schedule an hour before SC starts which reports 3 hours after SC starts? As in…what if I forget to check the schedule myself? Will I get a voicemail left at 1600? At 1800? No VM but a CNO? Are MiCrew CNO acknowledgements just as effective as iCrew acks?

If I am awarded a SC TWO days prior (which I’m led to believe is possible if I YS one), what’s the timeline for my non-contactable notification to scheduling?