Define Calendar Quarter

[ClassG]

Anyone feel qualified to define "Calendar Quarter" as in:

135.267 (f) The certificate holder must provide each flight crewmember at least 13 rest periods of at least 24 consecutive hours each in each calendar quarter.

Asking because it occured to me that a Calendar Year is Jan 1- to Dec 31.

A Calendar Month is Jan, Feb, ... Dec.

But a Calendar Quarter? Does it have to be JFM - AMJ - JAS - OND? Or is it also ANY 3 consecutive months within one Calendar Year?

Just wondering if anyone has ever covered this with a Fed?

Thanks.

ClassG

 

[minitour]

13 calendar weeks?

91 calendar days?

 

[Singlecoil]

A calendar quarter is JFM-AMJ-JAS-OND. You have to have 13 days off in each of those four distinct calendar quarters.

 

[pilotyip]

Legal

You could take 13 days vacation from 1-1 to 1-13 and then work 156 days in a row and take off from 6-17 to 6-30 and be full legal the whole time.

 

[ClassG]

Thanks guys!

I was taught this way 135, but never have thought to inquire about this particular scenario. JFM-AMJ-JAS-OND is how I've always logged it. Just wondering. This will come in handy teaching indoc later this month.

ClassG

 

[Dr Pokenhiemer]

You are right. It is always based on the calender unless it is worded, "During the previous 90 days", or "In three consecutive months."

I had this question come up when I was flying freight. I was hired in June, and by the following June I was up to 1100+ hours and was worried about going over 1200 in a calender year. I called 2 FISDO's before I got the correct answer of Jan-Dec.