Originally Posted by
Dash8widget
Report on day one at 1600, release on day 7 at 0900. If my math is correct, you just worked 137 hours which means you had at least 30 hours off in the previous 168. You worked 7 days in a row without a 30 hour layover and it's perfectly legal.
Yes, but the 137 hours of work equates to 5.7 days (5 days, 17 hour)s. I guess we don't see what you're getting at. Yes, you can work 7 actual days with the new regs, if you start late on day 1 and end early on day 7 but you're not working 7 whole days continuously. You're only working 5 days, 16 hours without getting a 30 hours break.
That's one of the things about the FAR 117 - it's parts of it are the same, just labeled and defined differently.
Instead of 1 day off in 7, now we get 30 hours off in 168 hours of duty. (which is 1 day, 6 hours off every 7 days).