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.
But you
don't have a responsibility to ascertain at noon (really, 12 hour before starting LC). That's the point. You are conflating FAR rules and PWA 'legality'. IF the company places it on your schedule before then, you can be made to report as early at 10 hours after starting LC. WHEN you make yourself aware of that is completely up to you. A commuter may have a different decision than a local, but it's ultimately irrelevant. What difference does it make to
you the individual? You are perfectly welcome to wake up at midnight and check your schedule. You have that flexibility. And you don't have to determine the PWA 'legality' at/after noon. You can
choose to check it, and screenshot a blank schedule as a hedge against an illegally placed assignment to fight that later, but that has nothing to do with the FAR's.
This is how it works. And frankly, you don't
want it to work differently. Kinda like SC report time. You don't want it defined. Because then, if you scan on one minute late, you are subject to discipline. Likewise, you don't want to be forced to do a schedule check at midnight, because that's the only way around it.
You seem tone afraid you are violating the FAR's by checking your schedule. You 100% are not.