Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I was responding to the last line in his post.
So, only 5 Mar, not a heavy weekend or anything...
He seems to be wondering why crew Skeds would be having to cover a lot of flying. The answer seemed to me to be rather obvious.
Originally Posted by
Doug Masters
Gotcha. I too got robo called. 3 of them within a 7 hour period. All woke me up. Would this be an interruption of my 8 hour "sleep opportunity" per FAR 117? Could i have legally accepted the 3rd call knowing I didn't have 8 hours rest?
Yeah, sailing is right on this one... I was woozy and disoriented after my 3rd wakeup in the middle of the night robocall, asking me to report in 3 hours or 4 hours (clearly violating crew-rest each time). I was irked and actually did kinda forget what was driving the IA calls, as I typed my message in the wee hours of the morning. But I can be forgiven as my wife was saying, "I have to wake up early, if that damn phone rings again you better be sitting up with your hand on it to answer in 1 ring!!!!"
And I can tell you that yes, being forced to listen to a robocall at 22:40, then at 23:58, then at 02:01, then at 06:31, then at 08:22, then at 09:31... YES, that absolutely violated my crew-rest, and I could in no way have been legal to fly ANYTHING they were asking me to fly, even if I COULD have commuted in (no flights avail to commute by t/o times). As I said, I actually WANTED to fly something.
Seriously, there have been multiple FAA interpretations of crew-rest and what breaks it, and at this point it's just crazy that they company has not programmed their phone system to remember who and when they called so as to not violate crew-rest.