Originally Posted by
cencal83406
Just make sure you tell them about the 2 hour NC before they assign a rotation.
100% agree. But...
Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Functionally, that's how it's been working. But the letter of the contract is at the time of notification, right? Absolutely not trying to split hairs, I can just see the company flexing on an individual pilot citing 23.S.
In practice, notification of short call wouldn't be any later than 18 hours prior, or 12-hours before the start of LC (10-18 hour rule) right? So at notification (self or actual), invoke 2-hour NC (as is the requirement in the PWA/SRH). This should cover 99% of scenarios, because anything else and they could outright remove the SC and assign a rotation >18 hours out.
One outlier being for SC assigned days in advance. Still, when you make the call to self-notify/ack and invoke 2-hour NC, they could instead have a LC assignment waiting for you and the SC disappears.
Another outlier being SC is assigned 11AM the day prior, and you call at 2000 to invoke 2-hour NC. I believe this still counts as self-notification (allowing 2-hour NC to be valid. You were not contactable yet), but a rotation assignment may be present at that point. This gets into splitting hairs as Fangs mentioned. But as Cencal said, something to be aware of.