Originally Posted by
Twin Wasp
In theory no one's supposed to be in the seat more than 8 hours. But I just did DWC - AUH - PVG. The DWC - AUH leg was 44 minutes block (a new personal record beating my 55 minutes MFM - HKG.) The company will figure we all flew 30 minutes that leg. Usually if I'm the third wheel for a short hop I'll try to give the other pilots an extra 15 minutes or 30 minutes rest the next leg.
Did DXB-DXB local flight of 3:22 once, hopping over to DWC the wind increased above tailwind landing limits and we held per the customer at the final fix for over 2 hours while the tailwind increased, then returned to DXB. We had 3 or 4 crewmembers.