Originally Posted by
ohaiyo
"Reserve availability period means a duty period during which a certificate holder requires a flightcrew member on short call reserve to be available to receive an assignment for a flight duty period."
Where in that definition am I, as a pilot, required to take any action?
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-1...ter-G/part-117
SRH page 185:
FAR Part 117 includes four rest requirements:
1. “30-in-168” Before beginning any reserve availability period (RAP) or FDP, a pilot must have received at least 30 consecutive hours free of duty within the 168 consecutive hours (seven 24-hour periods) immediately preceding the start of the RAP or FDP.
2. “10 before beginning” Before beginning any RAP or FDP, a pilot must have received at least ten hours of rest with a minimum of eight uninterrupted hours of sleep opportunity. A sleep opportunity generally commences once the pilot is at a location where he can reasonably be expected to go to sleep and not have that sleep interrupted, such as a hotel.
FAR 117.25
(b) Before beginning any reserve or flight duty period a flightcrew member must be given at least 30 consecutive hours free from all duty within the past 168 consecutive hour period.
Legality is a joint responsibility between the pilot and the company. You cannot report for an FDP without 10 hour prospective rest immediately prior. Choosing to report when say you've only had an 8 hour rest period is knowingly violating FAR 117. The exact same langauge/rules apply to a SC RAP. You cannot start a SC RAP without both 10 hours rest prior to start and finding 30 hours in the previous 168. If you are aware that you have not had legal rest and yet still choose to not notify the company until after report/start time then you violated FAR 117.