Originally Posted by
trustbutverify
Actually it's 9 hour scheduled layover if deadheading out next duty period...because it's scientifically proven that you don't need 8 hours of sleep when deadheading in a middle seat in the back of the cattle car.
You don't need any sleep to do a deadhead. A deadhead is a non-functioning task. You just sit there. Are you saying if you blocked into a west cost city at 10pm you would wait until the next morning to leave or hop on the midnight redeye home? Some pilots may choose the hotel while others will bail. Either way you are not a danger sitting fatigued in a passenger seat.
The beauty is if they give you less than 10 hours of rest, they can't touch you until after your DH blocks in + at least 10 hours of rest. If you got 10 hours of rest before the DH then, they can assign flying to you. Pick your poison.