Originally Posted by
FangsF15
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.
Ok, so we don't have an obligation to check it at noon, but we have an obligation to take an action at some point all the same. When you do that action would either be prior to midnight or after midnight. If you do it prior to midnight, it would violate your 30 hr rest. If you do it at or after, it would violate your 10 hour rest for a 10am FDP or RAP. Either way, this obligation would violate rest. You also couldn't legally start LC without knowing the LC start time beforehand, meaning really you'd have to check it prior to LC starting at midnight.
I want to believe I'm wrong on this. But nothing I've heard addresses the logic I've outlined adequately.