Originally Posted by
Xray678
Its pretty much the same here. If you have an IOE on your trip, you are on the hook for recovery flying. Recovery flying is given out before they give trips to reserves. There are some restrictions, a recovery trip can't sign in before your original trip and it has to be back within six hours of the original trips release time. International though, they can get you back the next day. One small point....if your trip has an IOE only on a portion of it, you are not subject to recovery flying. So if you look at your trip and the first 4 legs have an IOE, but the rest of the trip is normal, don't drop it! If you fly any portion of your original trip you will not get recovery flying.
Isn't there also a part where, if they don't use you the first day, you have no further commitment? Example: They take a 4-day for IOE. You have 23K recovery on the first day, but if you don't get reassigned, you are free of duty for the next three days. My "When Scheduling Calls" is in my brainbag and I'm not sure about the exact verbage.