Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
It is clearly unsupportable nonsense to suggest that "everyone' has a mobile phone. Until that is a requirement of passing your medical that cannot be the case.
Even if crew do posess one the company cannot dicate that they carry it when not on duty.
Equally they cannot require them to remain in areas of mobile coverage when not on duty.
If they choose to so constrain the crew outside a duty period as above then the employee is clearly acting at the employer's behest and is thus on duty.
Meleagertoo
Not sure which planet you've come from but the contactable duty as per the old CAP371 is as above, normally a 2 hour duty, and not accountable to duty hours.
I never had a Pilot complain if he had a contactable because if he did he wouldn't see one ever again and just get a nice 8 hour standby stuffed on his roster (and that's accountable)
And in the old days when contactable was in place there was no such thing as a mobile phone either