Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I think it's pretty clear they can only call once without breaking the 10 hour rest.
The FAA has a “one phone call” policy that “generally” allows a certificate holder to initiate one phone call during a crewmember’s rest period. If the crewmember voluntarily chooses to answer the phone call, the FAA does not view the phone call as disruptive and breaking the rest period. However, a flightcrew member may have difficulty getting back to sleep after being woken up by a certificate holder’s phone call. In that situation, a flightcrew member may have his/her sleep opportunity interrupted. Thus, a certificate holder runs the risk of interrupting a flightcrew member’s sleep opportunity during the rest period by making a phone call.
Where is that in 117?
What you're discussing is whether
the company is violating FAA policy, and you seem to be equating that with
pilots violating
FAR's. Pilots have a duty not to fly if they're not in compliance with 117.25. If they determine their sleep was interrupted, they need to act accordingly.
If a pilot doesn't determine that they lost the required sleep opportunity, they're not illegal. Maybe it's because they didn't hear the phone, didn't have it on, whatever.
Bottom line: the calls going out do not equate a pilot violating FAR's. They might mean the company has some splainin' to do, and
in many cases, multiple calls = interruption from a pilot perspective. In some cases, however, even one call is too many.