The federal government, namely the Federal Aviation Administration came up with some new duty rules for airline pilots. FAR 117. These new rules came about after the accident in Buffalo a few years back. These new rules were meant to reduce fatigue among airline crews. These rules are a total joke as far as that goes. They eliminated a limitation on flying more than 30 hours in 7 days. They also increased the amount of flight time in one day from 8 hours to 9 hours. And along with some other changes I have to say, as an airline pilot I have never been so tired in my life. My schedule over 13 days, starting on June 27th involves 11 days of flying in 13 days. 3 on. 1 off. 4 on. 1 off. 4 on. This includes 58:05 of scheduled block time. And does not include 10:05 of flying that includes my commute to and from Phoenix. I have never had schedules this shitty since I was a freight dog 25 years ago. These new schedules from the company, under the FAAs new rules are going to cause another accident. And I will garontee you I will be using the fatigue clause in my contract to avoid flying this garbage as frequently as I have too. This is total BS! You CANNOT recover and return to work fully rested after 1 day off in between trips! And your fatigue level is cumulative, and increases when you start a trip. So you never really get caught up, and fully rested.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:45:37 +0000
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