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ExAF
So you are replaced on a trip for OE and are notified of the dropped trip without any replacement flying (so far). Just how "available" do you have to be to be assigned recovery flying? I couldn't quite nail that down reading the PWA. When and how often are you required to answer the phone/check your line and for how long? Anyone?
The best I can tell is they have up to 12 hours prior to your original report to assign you recovery flying that must comply with the recovery rules in the PWA. Someone that has actually had this happen may give you some better guidance. I copied the references below.
From "When Scheduling Calls":
When a First Officer is removed from all or part of his rotation for
another pilot’s OE,
Section 23 G. 5 recovery rules apply.
Section 23 G.5 from the PWA:
5. An LCP may remove a First Officer from a rotation or any portion thereof for the purpose
of conducting OE.
a. If the First Officer is removed from his entire rotation, he will be guaranteed pay and
credit for the scheduled credit of such rotation, and will be subject to recovery flying.
The Company will attempt to notify the pilot of his removal and any assigned
recovery flying at least 12 hours prior to the report time of his originally scheduled
rotation.
If a notification attempt is not made at least 12 hours prior to the scheduled
report of his originally scheduled rotation, the pilot will have no recovery obligation.
The pilot will be subject to recovery flying as follows:
1) A pilot who has acknowledged his recovery flying no later than three hours prior
to the report time of his originally scheduled rotation:
a) must be scheduled to be released no later than four hours from the scheduled
release of his original rotation, or the same calendar day, whichever is later.
b) may be scheduled for a single recovery rotation that originates on any day of
the originally scheduled rotation.
c) may not be scheduled for recovery flying which reports prior to his originally
scheduled report time.
d) may enter his preferences for recovery flying in the PCS template in DBMS.
He will be assigned rotations based on his preferences for such flying, in
seniority order, within days-of-availability groupings, unless he is the only
such pilot available to fly another rotation within the same days-of-availability
grouping.
Note: If the assignment to recovery flying is being made within 24 hours of the
scheduled report of the originally scheduled rotation and the recovery flying
reports on the same day as the originally scheduled rotation, such pilot will only
be assigned a rotation after white slips in
Section 23 N. 2. If the recovery flying
reports on a calendar day subsequent to the date of the originally scheduled
rotation, such assignment will be made prior to any assignments made under
Section 23 N. 1.
2) If the pilot has not acknowledged his recovery flying three hours prior to the
report of his originally scheduled rotation, the pilot is subject to recovery flying
under
Section 23 K. 1. If the recovery flying includes a transoceanic duty period
as the last duty period of the rotation, the release time of the recovery flying will
be no more than 30 hours after the originally scheduled rotation
b. If the First Officer is removed after flying a portion of such rotation, he:
1) will be guaranteed pay and credit for the greater of:
a) the scheduled credit of such rotation, or
b) his accumulated credit for the portion of such rotation flown.
2) may be rerouted under Section 23 L.
c. If the First Officer is removed from a portion of his rotation beginning with the first
flight segment, he:
1) will be guaranteed pay and credit for the greater of:
a) the scheduled credit of such rotation, or
b) his accumulated credit for the portion of such rotation flown.
2) may be assigned to:
a) deadhead to any portion of such rotation, or
b) fly any portion of such rotation.
d. If a First Officer is so removed from an augmented crew, the senior First Officer will
have the option of being removed or flying the rotation, provided he notifies the
Company of his choice at the time of the first attempted contact to advise of the
removal. If the senior First Officer is unavailable for contact, he will be the First
Officer who is removed unless he has indicated a preference in DBMS to not be
removed.