Originally Posted by
PilotFrog
Well since this wasn't answered in the big thread, I will try it here, thanks for making this new thread.
I have a reserve question. I have been on it most of my short career at Delta, but what happened yesterday kinda shocked me. I was on an X day to finish January on the 30th and started Feb month on the 31st with an on call day. At 4 AM they called and told me I was on short call starting at 5. I was a little shocked thinking I was supposed to get 10 hrs notice before going on short call. I don't remember specifically checking my schedule after 7 pm, but I know I never acknowledged any SC. Also since I was on an X day, couldn't I have been drinking till midnight legally? Just wondering because nothing happened, I wasn't drinking, I didn't get called in for a flight, but just mad I was called at 4 am. Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to find it in 23.S, but I think it's your responsibility to check your sched after 1500 on your last X-day, and to be prepared to have a trip or SC as early as 0500. The key here is to do what ACL said: check right after 1500, and check again. The reason you check AGAIN is that your schedule will show the LAST time you checked in the corner, not the current time. You save that schedule, or print it.
Then you go have a beer.