In the end it didn’t matter. Very confused as to why I didn’t receive a one day today, but I think a scheds screw up and my lack of knowledge/paying attention caused it. So here is the story…..

starts with short call on Friday 0200-0800. Phone call happens about 0600 (the reroute at about 0615 but that’s another story), and I’m off to the airport. Deadhead ATL-DTW, work DTW-LAX, then I’m scheduled to layo and then deadhead on the redeye back to ATL. That’s just dumb so I deviate back to ATL and get back about 2045.

So here’s the funny part. Never paid attention to the layo length, because I wasn’t going to stay. Ended up being 9:29 rest on the rotation. I went to crash pad, there was no reason to commute home that late though I could have. Spent all day Saturday on long call wondering if I’d get tagged for a trip or short call. Just barely dodged all that, or so I thought.

So today, I’m now no longer committed to long call (last reserve day), so I try to pick up a green slip before I head home. But I don’t get anything?!? I plug a rotation into the rules auditor and it says rest less then 10hrs?? So I’m guessing I needed 30 off from the end of rotation as scheduled before being legal again???

would have been nice to know, would have come home Friday night or Saturday morning if scheds had put the required 30 on my schedule. Day and a half of my life I won’t get back. Though by not putting it on there, had they tried to tag me with a trip it would have flagged then, making me unusable for the remainder of my reserve period.