Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

The company does not tell you when you are going to extend. They just assume you know and you will extend. Whatever the FAR time says on the release, you have to add :30 minutes to that time because our postflight does not count. For example, a 5 leg day only allows you to have a FTD of 12:30 but that 12:30 is actually a 13 hour duty day. A two leg day allows am FTD of 14:00 extendable to 16:00 which is actually a 16:30 hour duty day. The new rules actually allow a longer duty day than the old rules along with more scheduled flight time per day. For those of you that feel mored tired, it's because you are. These rules were a royal screw job.
If you're barely going to go over, no problem, dispatch will just issue a new release with a higher cost index and unrealistic taxi times. We are giving up a lot for out 5:15 ADG.