I do this whenever I can. Has always worked in my favor.


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Thanks guys. This will be the plan then!

 

Randomly had 54 hours of rest assigned to me in the middle of a six day block of long call today. The notification came over 24 hours after the start of the supposed rest. When I get back on LC, I'll only have 29 hours of LC remaining (or 17 if released at noon on my last day). I called CS and the scheduler couldn't give me a reason for it. Is this some complicated scheme that I'm not privy to, or just an accident?

 

No idea what happened, but rest must be prospective, meaning you must know about it in advance. So if you were not notified until 24 hours in that rest before notification doesn’t count towards any 30/168 reset requirement.

 

Ok. That's what I was thinking. Also possibly why it's 54 hours. Might hold on to that in case I get some Florida related assignment into my days off.

 

I am a new hire, and I have been looking deep into the handbooks to understand reserve and scheduling.

however, one block doesn’t fall in place, maybe someone can clarify for me….

what’s the earliest I can request a YS? Let’s say I start a LC on Friday, and I see an open time trip that I would like to fly during my LC period, can I submit a YS for that trip say Monday or Tuesday prior?

thanks everyone!

 

You can request the YS as early as you want, but it will only be filled the day prior to the trip. There are a few destinations, MED (malaria endemic?), that cover more days in advance to allow preventative medicine to be taken prior.

This comes from the “coverage ladder” in the PWA, or more easily the Scheduling reference handbook.

 

For future reference don’t call them. It’s their job to exercise operational control and place you on rest. Let them do their job*.

If they try to assign you a trip later in the week, and you have not been prospectively placed on rest for at least 30 hours in the past 168, you are not legal to accept the trip.

As a real world example, last month they never placed me on rest (nobody called and no CNO). Around day 8 of a reserve stretch, heading into the weekend, a scheduler called to assign a 4 day trip.

I asked him to check and see where I had received 30 in 168. He said it’s on your schedule a couple days ago (this is why the computer didn’t flag it as illegal). I then asked him to check to see when I had been noticed for that rest. After a long hold he came back, removed the 4 day and placed me on 30 hours of rest, beginning then…prospectively as is required.

They’ve been doing this a lot lately and the only way it’s going to stop is if we stop fixing it for them. Know your PWA and FARs and hold them to it. Had I accepted that trip it would have been an FAR violation.




*you are not required to continuously monitor icrew/MiCrew. They place stuff on schedules all the time that ends up getting removed. I have stopped looking and now just wait for the call.

 

This. So much this.

 

Is this correct? Extended into 2 x-days, with the trip ending at 0600 on the second day. They gave one full PB and one PR with me back on reserve at 1900 on the PR day (ocean crossing). Should I only get 1 full PB day?