Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
FAR 117 is science based which is why it contains the requirement to have a minimum 10 hour rest, including the opportunity to get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Do you think the pilots are sleeping 8 hours during the day and then flying the CDO?
Do you think UPS/FedEx pilots are sleeping 8 hours during the days then flying all night? What about the Delta guys who fly ANC-ATL? It is all their jobs to show up rested. If we think they don't, then we need to petition the FAA to prohibit all back-side-of-the-clock flying, right?
Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Just because it's "legal" (surely, you have to agree this is a loophole... a way of getting around the FAR) doesn't mean it's safe.
How can something that's an FAR be itself a way to get around the FAR?
