Originally Posted by
tennisguru
Going NC only requires you to be immediately available right at the 2:00 mark. You are the perfect candidate for using NC to shield yourself from having to report during the first 1/3 of your 6 hour SC period. Simply check your schedule 1 minute into your SC period. If you have a rotation then you’ve got plenty of time to be “immediately” available 2 hours from that point.
Forgive me for being dense; this is an honest question. So, let's say my SC begins at 1000. If they call me at 1001, I am reasonably expected to be at the airport at 1201, but with all of the "what if" elbow room in place. Alternatively....
I start SC at 1000 and I go NC until 1200, I am reasonably expected to be available for a 1201 report with none of the same "what if" elbow room. Since that NC time doesn't mean they can't assign something to me, if just means I have less notice to respond to it.
It seems to me that I'm better off staying quiet since I am supposed to be using that NC time to be getting closer to the airport, and I am not going to do that since I am natively less than two hours from the airport and I can just spend that time doing whatever I want. If they assign me a trip at 1030, I can get to it by 1230 and not raise anyone's dander. I 'gained' 30 minutes of hangar time.
If I am on NC time and they do the same, but I check my schedule at 1045 and have that same trip at 1230, I've only lost 15 minutes of my SC leash. Which would be made even worse if my phone rang at 1201 and I now had 29 minutes to report.
Is the idea that if I start SC at 1000, they could assign me a trip reporting at 1030 sometime in the middle of the night and I'd lose that two hour's of NC 'home time'? That would be the only protection that I can noodle out, but I don't think that's how SC works here. I start at 1000, I really can't be expected to be anywhere before about noon, anyhow.
What am I missing?