Originally Posted by
tennisguru
Actually, he is right. To clarify - a CNO text message is NEVER notification of anything. To reiteriate, the ONLY time CNO is valid is when they are notifying you of a future SC period AND you are currently in a contactable status (LC or SC) at the time the CNO is received. What most people miss is that the only CNO that counts is a call/voicemail from the automated system.
CNO Text = can be completely disregarded no matter when it is received or what it is for.
CNO voicemail for future SC period assignment = valid notification if it is received when on LC or SC
CNO voicemail for anything other than a future SC period assignment = can be completely disregarded
For rest, the PWA says that any call for a rest assignment must come from a live scheduler. If you answer the phone they can put you into rest immediately, but if you do not answer they CANNOT start your rest until at least 2 hours after the time of the phone call. Any rest that starts earlier than 2 hours after the live call/vm is not PWA compliant.
As I updated my post to say, perhaps I was misreading what he said (perhaps the ‘text’ part, while I was focusing on the “phone” part), but we are in complete agreement about CNO.
However, the part about rest and 2 hours is not fully accurate, at least how I read it. PWA 23.S.5.f.2.b. In order for the rest to start 2 hours ‘later’, “the pilot
must inform the company within nine hours of first attempt attempted contact if they were unable to begin their rest as scheduled.” Am I missing something?