You are completely incorrect.
Originally Posted by
Cujo665
(e) No certificate holder may schedule and no flightcrew member may accept an assignment for any reserve or flight duty period unless the flightcrew member is given a rest period of at least 10 consecutive hours immediately before beginning the reserve or flight duty period measured from the time the flightcrew member is released from duty. The 10 hour rest period must provide the flightcrew member with a minimum of 8 uninterrupted hours of sleep opportunity.
Originally Posted by
Cujo665
The 10 hour rest period must provide the flightcrew member with a minimum of 8 uninterrupted hours of sleep opportunity
This is the part you are getting confused about
: "The 10 hour rest period". It means your rest period, which must be at least 10 hours, NOT the preceding 10 hours. This part of the reg does not mean that the 8 hours of sleep opportunity must be within the preceding 10 hours, it means that your 8 hours sleep opportunity must be within
the rest period, which must be no less than 10 hours.
It says
The 10 hour rest period
which you think means the preceding 10 hours, but it says that because its referring to this part mentioned above:
Originally Posted by
Cujo665
unless the flightcrew member is given a rest period of at least 10 consecutive hours immediately before beginning the reserve or flight duty period
Which is only saying it must be
no less than 10 hours.