Originally Posted by
Prospect
There is only one time that you can ascertain if something is on your schedule no later than 1200, and that's at 1200. The overall context in the PWA is talking about when CS has to call you or not, and the 2 situations are prior to your release from a rotation (when you are required to check your schedule), and 12 hours before the end of your last non-fly day. Furthermore, the SRH says for such an assignment "it is the pilot's responsibility to ascertain any such assignment. If nothing appears on a reserve pilot's schedule at that 12-hour point... blah blah".
Seems clear to me one has a responsibility to ascertain this at noon, otherwise it would be impossible for them to know if they are on an 18 hour leash or not and exactly what their reserve responsibilities are starting at midnight. One must know before a reserve period begins when the reserve period begins, so you need to know before midnight if you're actually on LC or not, it can't be a guessing game where you find out exactly at midnight whether you are on reserve or rest.
You can determine when an assignment was made without checking your schedule right at noon. The daily trip coverage report timestamps when a rotation was assigned. For SC you’d have to call scheduling but they can tell you what time it was placed on your schedule. Just because it’s inconvenient doesn’t negate that it is a way to do so.
Again, I’m not going to argue the technical details of not being aware of something until midnight or later. No one on this board can change anything. Your best place to start is a dart to the scheduling committee, and I guarantee they will tell you basically what I have. If you truly want to affect change then you’re going to have to take the fight to the FAA level. Don’t ascertain things until well after midnight when you then wouldn’t have 10 hours prospective rest. Start declining to report for assignments due to your perceived FAR 117 violations. File ASAPs every time. Until the FAA says this setup isn’t legal then neither the company nor the union will push to affect change.