Originally Posted by
highfarfast
Watch for the training 'day off'. I had 5 days built into my recurrency training. Showed my HI10 to a couple captains when they told me it should be 4 days and they didn't really know why it was 5 days, just said "maybe it's because you have a probi ride".
Turns out we had two days of ground in Dallas, a 'training day off', and two days of sims in Houston. When I called crew scheduling as to why I had flying on my schedule that looked like a 7 day conflict, they said it was legal due to the training day off. I'm not sure how that's different than a travel day since the day off is used to travel to a different city but it didn't matter anyway (I got displaced for IOE for the part that would have been in question).
And yes, they will leave a single turn on your schedule if you are legal for it.
WOW there is a lot to unpack here. This absolutely sucks!! First it is 117 legal. However is it contractual?
The day off doesn't count towards your 11 days off. The company can not schedule you for more than 14hrs of training (including deadhead).
Now you could argue that the schedule would be fatiguing. How many days in a row are you scheduled to be away from home?