Originally Posted by
Cujo665
No, in your example, you had the opportunity to sleep for 8 uninterrupted hours in the 10 preceding the FDP. You decided not to use it. Nothing wrong there as long as you can sign under 117.5 that you're fit for duty.
Absolutely not, lunch at a restaurant is NOT sleep opportunity. Your whole argument is that you can't have 8 hours of sleep opportunity during a commute, well you don't have 8 hours of sleep opportunity at a restaurant. Why is commuting different? Its something you voluntarily do just like going out to lunch.
Show me anywhere in the exact same rest rule that says you don't need the exact same 8 hour sleep opportunity in the 10 hours preceding the duty period on day one.
This isn't the way laws work. Something is legal when there is no law that prohibits it, not the other way around. No where in Part 117 does it say that the
8 hours of sleep opportunity must be within the preceding 10 hours. It says your rest must be at least 10 hours, and within that rest period, you must have 8 hours sleep opportunity.
This is the part you are confused about. You are confusing "preceding 10 hours" with the preceding rest period, which must be at least 10 hours. The 8 hours of sleep opportunity does not have to be in the preceding 10 hours of rest.