skillett

Something has changed since I read the Regs a few months ago. What I read in the US Airways booklet is that your shift is over once FDP is over unless assigned additional flying before the end of that FDP. Tell me if I'm wrong but Ready Reserve is not a FDP.

skillett

Never mind I will answer my own question. Yes reserve is a FDP. Trying to look up the answer on your FDP ending once your flight has ended with no additional "flying" assigned.

CBreezy

This is legal provided it was added to the schedule prior to the brake being set and it does not exceed your FDP limit. If it is added after the brake is set, it is illegal since you are already in rest.

skillett

Let me ask you this. They can assign you ready reserve but not regular reserve?

CBreezy

That's an interesting question. My guess is no. Since regular reserve is not counted as FDP, once you end the flight duty period, you cannot be placed back into short call RAP until you have your 10 hour rest. Since ready reserve is part of the FDP, your FDP doesn't stop.

skillett

According to the definition though Ready Reserve is not a FDP. The way it's written is "with the intention of conducting a flight". Sitting at the airport on the couch watching Days Of Our Lives is not intention of conducting a flight, ferry or movement of an aircraft. This is vague.

sulkair

Is it brake set, or 15 minutes post brake set?

sulkair

Can I ask a favor? I'm trying to get my log books nice and tidy. Do any of you guys have a digital list of CR9 3 letter ID's that correlate to N numbers? Something you could copy and paste into a PM for me? I sure would appreciate it. I really don't want to call dispatch for this LOL! Reason I need them is I copy data strait from crew-web and usually only end up with "CYD" etc. instead of an N number. Mention publicly if you send a PM, so other's don't have to bother Thanks so much!

RgrMurdock

Brake is set. And though "airport reserve" or "ready reserve" is not considered a leg for the purposes of FDP, it counts under FDP limits. AR is not RAP it is FDP.

CBreezy

Sometimes it helps to just pull out the FAR and do a little casual reading. It's only like 20 pages.

"Flight duty period(FDP) means a period that begins when a flightcrew member is required to report for duty with the intention of conducting a flight, a series of flights, or positioning or ferrying flights, and ends when the aircraft is parked after the last flight and there is no intention for further aircraft movement by the same flightcrew member. A flight duty period includes the duties performed by the flightcrew member on behalf of the certificate holder that occur before a flight segment or between flight segments without a required intervening rest period. Examples of tasks that are part of the flight duty period include deadhead transportation, training conducted in an aircraft or flight simulator, and airport/standby reserve, if the above tasks occur before a flight segment or between flight segments without an intervening required rest period"

Also there's this little thing:"(b) Any reserve that meets the definition of airport/standby reserve must be designated as airport/standby reserve. For airport/standby reserve, all time spent in a reserve status is part of the flightcrew member's flight duty period."

See? Easy.