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How noble of you! I love guys like you, either you lived with mom and dad for those first few years at the FO pay scale or you have one big pile of credit card debt? There is no way that somebody can pay to live at home and also pay for crashpad or hotel consistantly at what regional airlines pay in the beginning! If you say that you can, you are straight up lying and you know it!!! :smash:
Why are there so many geeks on this website?
You can bet that the FAA is going regulate commuting when they get around to updating duty time regs. I would expect that time spent commuting (not local in nature) will be added to your duty day.......If pilots (and pilot Unions) want to get serious about updating the seriously antiquated FAA flight and duty time regs we cannot bury our heads in the sand on such critical fatigue drivers such as commuting.
On the other hand, if the FAA can regulate commuting, can they then regulate just what consitutes rest?
Probably not, because they have little practical ability to monitor or evaluate the quality of rest that a pilot receives, unless he tells them. They can, however, easily check whether any job-related activity (like commuting) might have kept the pilot from having an adequate opportunity to rest. That is what they might try to regulate.
The problem is that legislation signed in 1936 is still a major player in dictating our work rules. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Labor_Act
It was just amended in 2008 as the "Rail Safety Improvement Act" for railway workers giving them a monumental leap in QOL.
Here are the two key points in this new legislation:
Employee may NOT remain or go on duty for a period in excess of 12 consecutive hours.
Employee may NOT remain or go on duty UNLESS the employee has had at least 10 consecutive hours undisturbed rest off duty during the prior 24 hours.
I dont see why these rules cannot apply to us. Nothing against railway workers, but i think our job is a little bit harder, and fatigue plays a much bigger role safety wise in the cockpit than it does in a train control room.