Phone call does not disturb rest
A phone call does not disturb your rest..........legally anyway. Call some of the crewschedulers a few times at home during their sleep and ask them if you are disturbing their rest. If they say NO then maybe you should call them on a regular basis.
The legal interpretation is from 1992, David Byrne (FAA). A phone call does NOT interrupt your rest.
I have copyied some info from the ALPA website
www.alpa.org.
Note item # 3.
There is a lot more info on the ALPA site.
Good Luck,
Corp Pilot
RESERVE REST Q&A
(Updated 12-16-99)
These questions and answers are based upon the Federal Aviation Regulations. Collective Bargaining Agreements may be more restrictive than the Regulations.
1. Is a pilot who is assigned reserve status required to be given rest?
Yes. If a pilot on reserve status is to be given a flight assignment, he/she must be able to look back 24 hours at the completion of each segment of the flight assignment and have had, at a minimum, 9 hours of continuous rest in the 24-hour period. The rest period must be pre-assigned; it is not possible to retroactively designate a rest period. Alternatively, a carrier may keep a pilot on call for the entire 24-hour period providing that if the pilot is given a flight assignment, he must be given the required rest (9 hours reducible to 8 hours) prior to reporting for the assignment.
2. Can the 9 hours of required rest be reduced?
Yes. The 9 hours can be reduced to 8 hours providing a compensatory rest is given. The compensatory rest is 10 hours if the flight time is less than 8 hours; 11 hours if the flight time is less than 9 hours; and 12 hours if the flight time is more than 9 hours. The compensatory rest must begin no later than 24 hours from the beginning of the reduced rest.
3. How does the FAA define rest?
The FAA has consistently interpreted "rest" to mean a continuous period of time during which the flight crewmember is free from all restraint by a certificate holder. This includes freedom from work and freedom from responsibility for work should the occasion arise. Thus, a crewmember who was required to be near a phone, carry a beeper, or maintain contact by computer so that he would be available should the carrier need to notify him/her of a reassignment would not be on rest. However, there would be no rest violation where an air carrier does not impose any requirements on the crewmember during the rest period, and the crewmember just happens to answer the phone (or otherwise contact the employer) when the air carrier calls to notify him/her of a reassignment that will begin after the completion of his/her rest.