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NOTHING!
We just agreed to do CDO with no protection.
Honestly I think the SDP discussion was a red herring to get the FDP changed and the MEC has now rammed it down our throat faster that we could blink.
I have posted this several times in the last few days but here is the reality.
The SDP language would have allowed:
- 12 hour FDP (extendable to 14 hours)
- 3 hours minimum sleep opportunity
- No more than 2 hours skd block per leg
The thing nobody has been really paying attention to is the changes to Section 12.D.2 (Unaugmented FDP limits).
We have now agreed to up to 13.5 hour scheduled FDP vs current 13 and for night time ops our limits has gone from a low of 8.5 - 9 hours up to 10.5 or 11.5 hours scheduled with maxes of 13 and 14 hour.
With the new TA a pilot can be assigned a rotation with a 2100 report that looks like this:
- 11.5 hour FDP ( extendable to 14 with PIC/SIC concurrence)
- No Minimum Sleep Opportunity or even a Hotel Room
- No 2 hour block time restriction
I really hope someone else can show me where I am wrong, but I believe that we have just been had.
All we gained was 30 minutes and some pay. So that makes it all good and safe now.