Originally Posted by
Cujo665
That is written to establish a 10 hour minimum. If you have more than 10, then the only portion effecting you is the part about 10/8 immediately prior to the new FDP. You can have more rest measured from when duty ended, you just can’t have less than 10 measured from when duty ended.
If you do have more, it’s the 10/8 immediately prior to the new FDP that counts. This is clear, even in the interpretations cited elsewhere in this thread.
Nowhere does it say what you are asserting. What interpretations concur with your assertion? There is nothing that says that only the 10 hours prior to your next FDP counts. It also does not say anywhere that it uses a 10 hour look-back, only that the minimum is 10 hours with 8 inside it. You can have 20 hours with 8 inside it as well.
This is not "clear" in the regulations because you are the only one who even thinks this. Why don't you send an e-mail off to the FAA and see what they say to you about it. Just because you think something would make sense in a regulation doesn't mean you get to add it in on your own and require everyone else to abide by it.