Originally Posted by
contrails
I don't know if I'm an anomaly or what, but my schedule and my schedule flexibility is vastly improved with 117.
16 hours on duty?? 8:00hr layover commencing while waiting for the hotel van?? Never again.
Don't think 117 is bad stuff, it's not.
There are definitely some good things out of 117. I love not having less than 10 hours. At the regional I was at we would be scheduled with reduced rest. I would fly a 4 day with under 30 hours of scheduled rest on the overnights, all while doing 20+ legs in those 4 days.
Also some bad things....like having to ride DH in the back to LGA just in case the weather gets bad and the crew doing the turn to LGA flying the plane isn't legal to fly it back due to the hard limit on flight time.
This summer was full of those.
I've been lazy and haven't found/paid for an app to track it, but the rolling Duty/time limits are pretty difficult to keep track of.
And you can still do 16 hour days if you take the 2 hr extension.