Originally Posted by
501D22G
Question: Does it have to be a REG day off? What about a REG day on where you end a trip?
Let's say you block-in at 1530 as REG on last day of the bid period. REG to RES.
You squeeze yourself on the employee bus amongst all the P.F. Cheech & Chong's and Skunk-Fil-A workers who still reek of that morning's pre-shift clambake and head to the parking lot. Then it hits you. "Do I have to do a 1600 pre-release sked check because I'm RES tomorrow?
Or do you simply begin 18-hour leash at 0000 later that night?
Doesn't change anything.....whether you are flying a rotation or not....you are REG, not RES.
The "make yourself aware" stipulation for RES assignments on the first day of RES only apply to RES pilots...you are REG in your example.
Now...if you have a carry over trip from REG to RES, even though you started the trip as REG, you are finishing as RES, so you would have a post rotation schedule check.