YesterdayQuote:
My questions are:
When going into soft days off, is this request made somewhere on icrew? Or just give scheduling a call? How long in advance should this request be made?
Also, does being converted to short call reserve count as them having an assignment for you, or could you still be released at noon if there's no actual flying to be assigned?
Sorry for the long-windedness...thanks!
First question, call CS at the crack of noon. Originally Posted by MFan97
Newbie question...on reserve, there's a provision where scheduling will release you at noon on the last day of reserve if they don't have an assignment for you. If I interpret things correctly, this is automatically done if going into a hard day off, or must be requested if going into a soft day off.My questions are:
When going into soft days off, is this request made somewhere on icrew? Or just give scheduling a call? How long in advance should this request be made?
Also, does being converted to short call reserve count as them having an assignment for you, or could you still be released at noon if there's no actual flying to be assigned?
Sorry for the long-windedness...thanks!
I don't understand your second question, but this is from the Scheduling Reference Handbook: "Short call pilots will be released from on-call duty not later than 1200 base time on their last on-call day prior to a hard non-fly day." In any case, if you're on short call I would definitely call CS at noon and ask to be released with a soft- or hard-non-fly day the next day.
(A hard non-fly day is defined as "a non-fly day on which a pilot may not be inversely assigned to a rotation (e.g., vacation, APD day, reserve PD day, ALPA, legal duty, MLOA, or golden X-day)
