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[Ben Johnson]

make sure that those taxi times are right. if a release was generated 6 hrs prior and since then the original taxi time went from 15 minutes to 2 hours re-calculate. either way i my self have been lucky enought not to get nailed with this being close but i do know guys who have walked the line. asap and or call your union, i have yet to hear someone got more than a slap on the wrist.

 

[Crossky]

Count you blessings then.

"Are you THREATENING ME?"

Lose the 'tude dude!

 

[glfplt]

Correct-- you need to plug in ETE plus avg taxi time Plus duty time off by which your company abides by..

So add ETE plus 7 min taxi time plus 15 minutes duty off time and voila - your magic number. SO, for a 55 minute flight,-- work backwards you need to land by 15 hours and 38 minutes of duty, if not you are illegal, unles you get unforseen holding, etc, then it is ok to go over in that case.

So, you need to takeoff by14 hours 43 minutes, if you dont, then you are illegal to take off and go back to the gate and get a hotel,


SKIPPY legal since 1998

Correct.
At our airline you must add 5 minutes for taxi and 15 minutes for postflight. So the go/no-go time should always be flight time + 20 minutes.
Got called into the chief pilots' office for "teaching" dispatch on this rule after returning to the gate on the last flight out of LGA. Apparently most dispatchers calculate it from take-off to touchdown, which is flat wrong.