Least favorite rest rule?>

[hockeypilot44]

My vote: 30/7

All this does is make me have a choppier schedule- instead of being able to string together days in a row that allow for long stretches off=- i end up working a few, off for a few-- etc- it just gets in the way and often makes me bid flying that makes me more tired... Can't tell you how many times- great, easy trips are illegal by 15 minutes- but difficult ones with less block but more duty and less layover time are legal. Just a dumb rule.

Made more frustrating by my Turboprop roots where it was infinitely harder to build flight time, yet 34 in 7 was the rule.

I understand weekly limits are going away? .... hopefully

I don't mind 30/7. Deadheads should count towards 30/7 though. I've flown for too many airlines that will just turn one of my flying legs into a deadhead to make me legal.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

I agree, rest should be time behind a hotel door.

 

[waveflyer]

I don't mind 30/7. Deadheads should count towards 30/7 though. I've flown for too many airlines that will just turn one of my flying legs into a deadhead to make me legal.

You would at southwest- fatigue stays low bc they don't reverse your sleep schedule and fly more in less duty- -> end result: you want to fly more and make more - our min credit is 19.5 on our most common trip- a 3 day. It's enough, but fatigue usually isn't why I can't fly more- it's the reg

 

[ExpWayVis31]

My vote: 30/7

Your correct 30/7 sucks...Should be 25/7

 

[waveflyer]

Don't you get paid by the hour? --how many block hours I fly in a week has very little to do w/ fatigue

 

[usav8r]

Two duty periods in a 24-hour period. 7am flight east coast to the west coast, 10 hours rest, and fly the redeye back! Sucks!

 

[traffic pilot]

The more I fly the more I make. I keep block time low so I can fly more and make more money. I look for deadheads because I still get the pay but avoid the block time.
These new rest rules are going to cost many of us money. The new rules are a yearly, monthly, and weekly lookback at duty time instead of block time.

 

[mamba20]

Here at my airline (another way ALPA sold out junior pilots) you can start a reserve time at say 10 am and then get called for a trip that leaves at 7 pm which is international where we have an 18 hour duty day limit. The thing is, that 18 hour clock resets when you show up (no credit for the previous 9 hours you were on call and this is for reserves only) for the trip! So if the flight is then delayed 10 hours your still legal to do it as long as the block time is less then 18 hours. If you end up calling in fatigued you get punished by the chief pilots office, letters in files, docked pay, etc.

 

[Floatplane]

Here at my airline (another way ALPA sold out junior pilots) you can start a reserve time at say 10 am and then get called for a trip that leaves at 7 pm which is international where we have an 18 hour duty day limit. The thing is, that 18 hour clock resets when you show up (no credit for the previous 9 hours you were on call and this is for reserves only) for the trip! So if the flight is then delayed 10 hours your still legal to do it as long as the block time is less then 18 hours. If you end up calling in fatigued you get punished by the chief pilots office, letters in files, docked pay, etc.

You must work for Continental.