Originally Posted by
bugman61
This was the original post that I responded to. The report time is very relevant. In the scenario in the SRH, if the report time for the trip was 1959 instead of 2100, the pilot would be due an additional PB day.
And I was replying to post 3618... In which the report time of the GS is irrelevant to the question.
Originally Posted by
bugman61
Take a look at the example I referenced in the SRH. If you took that scenario to the facebooks or here, most answers would say that the pilot should get an additional PB day over what the example says. They would say "Round the PR to PB, then he has 2 interrupted X days. When in fact, the second rotation only interrupts one X day that goes from 2000 on the 11th until 2000 on the 12th.
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An interrupted PR it the end of a previously started PB day. It is not a separate day. When calculations are done according to the SRH, a PR is always included in the PB day that started sometime on the previous calendar day. How many PB days you get depends on the report time of the new rotation to determine how many of your non-midnight X days are interrupted.
But that's the thing, they
don't do calculations according to the SRH example 3. At least in my experience. I've rolled a lot of thunder and have literally had close to 100 Reserve GS's over the years (albeit not
this summer), and as far as I have ever been aware, CS universally sees PB and goes from there. (Amazingly, to our benefit.) CS can barely keep up with even the simplified math as it is, they do not dig down into the "other than midnight" end times as indicated in example 3. Kinda like the "rounding up" of a PR to a PB upon a subsequent GS. It's universally done.
Genuine question - have you ever seen CS actually calculate per example 3? If so, has that changed within the last year? Maybe I'm just not keeping up.
Not to split hairs, but a PR is not
always owed/represented. A domestic rotation which releases at 1500, once 9 hours is added, will have the last PB end right at 0000. No PR.