Originally Posted by
LarryDavid
FAR 117 is a total joke. It is nothing but political theatre which does little to nothing to enhance safety. It doesn't matter how long your layover is. If you live on the west coast and have 4 am shows east coast time fatigue will always be an issue, unless you can goto bed at 6pm your time to get 8 hours of sleep for the 4 am show. All these rolling windows are straight up retarded. Reduced rest was a nessecary evil to have more efficent/better paying schedules.
Now instead of reduced rest we get to rot in crappy outstations for an entire day and get less days off just to get the same pay we could have had with occasional reduced rest. Given the choice between spending 30 hours in some craphole or sucking it up for one night and doing reduced rest I take the reduced rest every single time.
But but but... Now the travelling public will have less to fear when getting on a small plane with "poorly trained" inexperienced pilots. They might have had 30 hrs off at the outstation but when you had to moonlight at Arby's so you can afford this so called career, I'm sure we'll all be well rested...
FAIL
The saddest part of all of this is, for just pennies we could make a livable wage and not have to be gone 18 days a month. Good thing we thought of the children.