Reserve and the Whitlow Letter - What happens if I answer the phone?

[acrobid]

While there are numerous bases and periods from which to choose, let’s assume a Memphis-based new hire in the right seat of the Boeing 757 and you can adjust the times accordingly to fit your situation. Being junior in the seat, our theoretical new hire finds her calendar populated with Reserve Period A (RP-A), and in two hours she’ll be on the hook for the next five days.

Before retiring for the evening, and out of curiosity, she logs into VIPs, where she finds
a Crew Notification waiting. Setting aside her FOM, she grabs the mouse, hovers the cursor over the notification and thinks to herself: “To click, or not to click?”