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Old 10-11-2013 | 12:43 PM
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trlaketige
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Originally Posted by iaflyer
The zero additional pilots isn't anything new, that's been the line for a while. FAR 117 basically mirrors most of our contract - the 9 hour flight time per day won't be as useful as you might think since you can't go over it. Also, from what I heard is any less pilots triggered by the 9 hours is negated by more augmentation needed on international runs.
I believe our contract limits us to 8 hrs flying. To use the 9 hrs would require a downgrade in our contract. I could be wrong.

tr
p.s. that's un-augmented of course.