It's only valid if you acknowledged it.

 

Until you go back on LC you are not contactable.

 

Just to provide more detail, you go back on LC following training at either midnight OR the end of your training period +9 hours, whichever is later. So if you wrap up an A period at 0900 you go back on LC at midnight with 1800 being your earlier possible report. If you have a D period that ends at 2200 you go back on LC at 0700 with 0100 the following day being your earliest report.

 

That A period math isn’t mathing to me. Are you sure that’s correct?

 

I wasn't being specific to the exact times of the A period. My point was just to use a random time where the time + 9 hours was before 0000, and then my second example was a random time where the time + 9 hours was past 0000.

 

For an A period (which releases at 0959), the later of "+9 hours or midnight" is midnight. The same is true for a B period.

For a C, D or E, the "+9 hours" is later, taking your LC start into the next calendar day. Regardless, because you didn't have a PWA "no fly day prior", the first possible assignment is 18 hours after going back on LC. This is why many choose to put a single day of reserve on the back side of CQ (or other pre-posted 'work'), particularly if you live in base, because it creates a legal reserve block and makes you minimally usable, if at all.

*edit* Tennis replied as I was typing, and said it more simply

 

I've been searching through this thread for "Pre posted rest" and most of the discussions revolve around getting hosed for GS or other desired flying.

My question is more of a newbie-seeking-knowledge around this pre-posted rest?

If it's on my schedule before I'm even on RES month, what are the notification requirements? Can I move X-days (assuming blue coverage) onto these days or will the 'rest' on that day preclude me from moving an X-day there?

(I've also decided that searching in Comply365 sucks.)

 

You're asking good questions. Most of us (I think) still have no/little idea how pre-posted rest works because it's a curveball that operates exclusive to the same-day/next-day/second-day order of things for Reserve pilots.

The notification requirements don't change (I think.) The post-rotation schedule check "likely" makes you responsible for acknowledging rest that may be as far out as a month in advance, versus same/next/second-day. I've not heard/seen any guidance on this.

I do not believe that pre-posted rest affects anything regarding x-day moves in PCS.

Pre-posted rest does affect reserve assignments, in the sense that the rest will cause trip coverage to search for pilots that can cover a trip without interfering with their rest before progressing to pilots with conflicting rest.

Pre-posted rest is/may be interfering with GS awards by denying them prematurely. I believe this is an ongoing point of contention.

 

Just to add to this, you are correct that pre-posted rest does not affect X day moves. In fact, strategically moving X days is a great way to get rid of a pre-posted rest.

May the 20th be with you.

 

Yes you can technically move X days with rest but...

/rant on

It absolutely hurts X day moves because preposted rest reduces reserves available. It crushes blue days which crush X day moves, PDs and swap with the pot. The practice of preposted rest is a QOL nightmare.

/rant off