PropsR4Boats said:
The guys in OKC don't care about all the legal to start legal to finish what nots. If you have a documented exceedence your in trouble. What some of you are suggesting is that...Jan 1st I'm not scheduled to fly more than 1000 hours this year, in fact I've only got on month scheduled for 90 hrs. I must be legal to fly the rest of the year no matter what huh? So you flew 1500 hrs in a year? Try explaining that to the administrative judge in OKC. Don't go over 30/7 or 34/7 100/year 120/yr what ever part you fall under. Just some advice from the guys in OKC, take or leave it.
Huh??? Dude, people exceed these ALL THE TIME.
Example: 29.5 actual plus scheduled on day 7; overblock on day 7 due to weather so new 30/7 total is 32 hours. LEGAL
Example: 998 actual plus scheduled on December 31; overblock on 12/31 due to weather so new 1000/year total is 1002 hours. LEGAL
It is about SCHEDULED FLIGHT TIME. You cannot be scheduled to exceed a limit -- period. You aren't in trouble until the duty period that will put you over. You cannot start a duty period if you know your schedule will put you over any limit.
If you are scheduled to be under (actual + scheduled for 30/7, 100/month, 1000/year) then you are fine. If you over-block on that duty period YOU ARE STILL LEGAL.
This is not rocket science just like Skybound says:
Skybound said:
Legal to start Legat to finish...period. not very complicated unless you mind f$ck it to death. Its about scheduling and duty times...not flight time.
It is very clear in the FAR's, which I have included for your reference:
§ 121.471 Flight time limitations and rest requirements: All flight crewmembers.
(a) No certificate holder conducting domestic operations may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may accept an assignment for flight time in scheduled air transportation or in other commercial flying if that crewmember's total flight time in all commercial flying will exceed—
(1) 1,000 hours in any calendar year;
(2) 100 hours in any calendar month;
(3) 30 hours in any 7 consecutive days;
(4) 8 hours between required rest periods.
(g) A flight crewmember is not considered to be scheduled for flight time in excess of flight time limitations if the flights to which he is assigned are scheduled and normally terminate within the limitations, but due to circumstances beyond the control of the certificate holder (such as adverse weather conditions), are not at the time of departure expected to reach their destination within the scheduled time.
