Originally Posted by iaflyer

Oops - don't have time to answer this, gotta run.

I think you have two questions there:

Here's the section of the contract that talks about checking your schedule the day prior to coming on duty for reserve:

A long call pilot will be notified of his assignment to open time under Section 23 N. or O. by one of the following two methods:

(1)telephone contact from Crew Scheduling.
(2) electronic placement of a rotation or conversion to short call that is placed on his schedule prior to:
a) his release from a rotation, or
b) nine hours before the end of his last non-fly day (other than a vacation day) before an on-call day.

also:

A reserve pilot will be required to check his schedule via DBMS or VRU:
no later than 0200 base time on his first on-call day following a non-fly day, so as to be able to acknowledge: a) any assignment no later than three hours before a scheduled report of the rotation or start of a short call period, or