Originally Posted by tennisguru

A couple of things. When any pilot does a last leg DH deviation, the original DH stays on their schedule for all legality purposes. So even though you got home Friday night, your rotation technically and legally didn't end until the release time of the scheduled DH on Saturday morning. For a REG pilot, that means that they cannot WS/GS another rotation that reports less than 10 hours from that release time (unless the WS/GS first duty period is DH only which does not require preceeding rest).

To add to that, for RES pilots who DDH last leg, they still are required to check their schedule within 30 minutes after the scheduled arrival time of the original DH. Scheduling can assign a rotation or SC reporting as early as 18 hours after the release time of the original DH. If no future assignment has been made or no 30 hour rest period assigned when you do that required schedule check you immediately resume LC at the release time (original DH arrival time +30 minutes). And of course any subsequent assignment requires 18 hours notification.

For any RES pilot actively on LC, they cannot get a GS awarded with less than 10 hours between award and report unless the first duty period of the rotation is DH-only, since as I said earlier a DH-only duty period has no preceeding rest requirement. A RES pilot can be legally awarded such a rotation up to and even past report time. What was said above is also correct - going into a golden X day or VAC day you are automaticaly released from LC into rest at 0600. That means that you cannot get a GS that starts with an FDP until 1600 at the earliest. If you are going into a standard X day there is no auto release from rest. Scheduling will try to assign rest starting at 1800, and a pilot can request release from LC earlier.