Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Hey Chuck,
I'm not exactly sure about your entire question. The only thing that jumps out at me is that, once you finished your S/C at 6pm today, you are on long call. Your obligation is 12 hours on long call. So, I think the earliest they could require you to be on S/C for tomorrow would be 12 hours from when they call you. In other words, if they called you at 7:44PM tonight, the earliest they could require you to be on S/C would be 7:44AM tomorrow.
Hopefully someone else that knows all the fine points can chime in and give you a more compete answer and/or correct anything that I may have gotten wrong.
Edit: See ACL's answer. It is better and more correct than mine.
The way I understand it is they could put you on SC starting at 0544 (which is 10 hours from when they called.) I've had them ask me to help out, but they are just being polite. You are obligated to accept the SC assignment 10 hours or greater from assignment time.
It does kinda take the sting out when they ask (tell) so nicely though
Much better than the fishing expeditions that NWA crew skeds would go on the night before your first day of reserve. I would have to turn my phone off until midnight because they called so often trying to tag me with a trip. Gotta love the southern manners.