atpcliff
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This info is from the "Aviation International News" May, 2005 issue (p. 10).
The committee (a group of about 60 people, including people who are management in the -135 industry) that has been working on the changes to -135 (and getting rid of -125 completely) has basically finished it's work. These proposed rules will be submitted to the FAA (I believe in either Jun or Jul), and the FAA will take it from there.
Here's a synopsis of the Flight&Duty Time/Crew Rest changes to -135:
-Clarification will be made to specify when a crewmember is On Duty, in Crew Rest, or the "Availability Period"-a new type of status for crewmembers (as in on a pager).
- The committe took, overall, a conservative approach to Flight/Duty/Rest time.
- The current regs are very grey, with dozens of different interpretations of the rules.
- Crew rest changes for -135/-91 tail-end ferries have been made.
- The committee looked at Duty Breaks and eliminating Extended Duty Day due to delays.
- If Duty Breaks will be added to -135, the minimum Duty Break will be 4 hours, and it will ONLY extend your Duty Day, not Flight Time.
- There will be NO extension of Duty Days due to a delay, even if the original trip could've been completed in the original time alloted (other than, of course, if the FAA endorses a Duty Break).
- If you're off-duty/not flying, how do you/your company know if you've had enough sleep and are rested?
There are two proposed methods:
Crewmember Availability Method:
- Sleep during "Protected Time", with a "Contact Time" at the end of the "Protected Time" which starts the crewmembers "Availability Period."
Tabular Method:
- Duty/Flight/Rest in a variety of Tables
- On-Demand, Scheduled, or Regularly Assigned Ops (like EMS)
- 1, 2 and Augmented Crews
You/your company would use the table that applies to your type of operation in this method of calculating the Duty/Rest/Call times
- There will be no more 24 hour "lookback" to decide crew rest.
Further comments from the committee:
It will take a while to read through and understand these new proposed regulations, and how they will affect the operations of your organization.
The -135 operators will like the new -135 regs, as they will give them more flexibility.
Some operators, who are on the committee, said that they would not need any more pilots, but they would need more oversight and management of their crews.
The committee said that the new regs will really work well for the -135 community.
Here is the online article:
http://www.ainonline.com/issues/05_05/05_05_arc_10.htm
Cliff
YIP
This info is from the "Aviation International News" May, 2005 issue (p. 10).
The committee (a group of about 60 people, including people who are management in the -135 industry) that has been working on the changes to -135 (and getting rid of -125 completely) has basically finished it's work. These proposed rules will be submitted to the FAA (I believe in either Jun or Jul), and the FAA will take it from there.
Here's a synopsis of the Flight&Duty Time/Crew Rest changes to -135:
-Clarification will be made to specify when a crewmember is On Duty, in Crew Rest, or the "Availability Period"-a new type of status for crewmembers (as in on a pager).
- The committe took, overall, a conservative approach to Flight/Duty/Rest time.
- The current regs are very grey, with dozens of different interpretations of the rules.
- Crew rest changes for -135/-91 tail-end ferries have been made.
- The committee looked at Duty Breaks and eliminating Extended Duty Day due to delays.
- If Duty Breaks will be added to -135, the minimum Duty Break will be 4 hours, and it will ONLY extend your Duty Day, not Flight Time.
- There will be NO extension of Duty Days due to a delay, even if the original trip could've been completed in the original time alloted (other than, of course, if the FAA endorses a Duty Break).
- If you're off-duty/not flying, how do you/your company know if you've had enough sleep and are rested?
There are two proposed methods:
Crewmember Availability Method:
- Sleep during "Protected Time", with a "Contact Time" at the end of the "Protected Time" which starts the crewmembers "Availability Period."
Tabular Method:
- Duty/Flight/Rest in a variety of Tables
- On-Demand, Scheduled, or Regularly Assigned Ops (like EMS)
- 1, 2 and Augmented Crews
You/your company would use the table that applies to your type of operation in this method of calculating the Duty/Rest/Call times
- There will be no more 24 hour "lookback" to decide crew rest.
Further comments from the committee:
It will take a while to read through and understand these new proposed regulations, and how they will affect the operations of your organization.
The -135 operators will like the new -135 regs, as they will give them more flexibility.
Some operators, who are on the committee, said that they would not need any more pilots, but they would need more oversight and management of their crews.
The committee said that the new regs will really work well for the -135 community.
Here is the online article:
http://www.ainonline.com/issues/05_05/05_05_arc_10.htm
Cliff
YIP
