Creative crew rest.  

Pilots should know when their crew rest begins and when it ends when they are released from duty.

If a pilot can be recalled after an early release, he or she is, or should be, still on duty. This would be fine if everyone understood that the next duty period crew rest began at least at the end of the current required lookback. An unsafe operator will consider the release time as the start of required crew rest for the next lookback. With likely retribution, this proves problematic for the pilot that fails to answer his or her telephone. This imposition is absurd with a minimum crew rest turn time.

This unsafe loophole is compounded when the pilot is given a subsequent late show as often happens on the last day of rotation. If the time between the release time and the show time is substantially more than the required crew rest period, with an unsafe operator, it’s anybody’s guess as to when crew rest begins and ends. If a pilot chooses to commence crew rest looking back from the show time for the next duty cycle, the unsafe operator can call and impose an earlier show time at the end of the last duty cycle. The effectively prevents a pilot from getting any sleep during the phantom, here it is, here it isn’t, crew rest period.

This crew rest shell game needs to stop.