Originally Posted by
tennisguru
That strategy hopefully burns the most LC days because it forces an 30/168 issue. Everyone should do 1/2/1 at a minimum. You are a little more exposed the more days you put in front but generally 1 or 2 is pretty safe. WB categories could do 2 easily. If you’re going to place 2 days afterwards you might as well place 3 to force them to give you rest at some point.
For those of us who commute, the 1/3(CQ)/4 works well....you can't be used until 1800 (at the earliest) on first day of CQ and you will need 30/168 somwhere during those 4 days after so that wastes a day and a half.
Added bonus is scheduling normally tries to tag a 21 hour block of rest immediately after the 9 hours free of duty and will argue that you do have 30 hrs of rest....only problem (for them) is you don't have any obligation to check your schedule on that last CQ day (or answer any phone call or acknowledge any CNO) so if pilots actually stopped acknowledging stuff they don't have too, there would be a 100% rate of pilots not having legal rest forcing the compnay to give them another 30 hours of rest in the middle of the LC days after CQ.