Originally Posted by
Aviator147
I'm sorry but the whole checking 1 minute into your SC window while in the 2 hour Non-Contact doesn't make sense. If I'm 1:55 into my 2:00 hour noncontact window "commuting in" and I check my schedule at 1:59 after ladnding in base, there could be a rotation sitting on my schedule that reports at 2:01 into my short call. So it confusing to me that a local would apply the non-contact clause for 2 hours and only check 1 minute into the SC window.....Can't CS put a rotation on your schedule at anytime in your 2 hour window, and you could be required to check at 2:00hrs to "report" immediately at the end of the 2 hour window? That's how I always understood it in my 7ish years here.
It's not about the 2 hours, it's about not being assigned a trip with a report before your SC that reports in the first 2 hours. Before the SC they can put a trip on your line that reports anytime during the SC. If you are NC they can assign a trip
as early as 2 hour in. "When the pilot checks their schedule, their line may contain a rotation with a report as early as two hours from the start of the short call period." Once the SC starts, the schedule check puts you back on promptly available. You have eliminated the possibility of a trip in the first 2 hours. But if you want to hang at the airport for an extra 2 hours of "me" time sitting across for the gate without the annoying when and where calls from scheduling because SAY IT WITH ME... you are not contactable. If there's an immediate need they will figure it out. That's what reroutes and VAS are for.