Originally Posted by
Tuck
Ok I hear you but I thought that the main differences between supplemental and normal were alternates and filing/dispatch/etc not the other things. We're still limited to 8 hours with 2 crew, 12 hours with 3 crew and FAR duty limits that are drawn from straight 121. I can't find any specifics in the FARs that make differences between 121 and 121 Supplemental. Are these written down specifically anywhere?
Sec 121.471 lays down the basic limitations for
Domestic operations. Subsection (a)(3) reads "30 hours in any 7 consecutive days."
Sec 121.481 lays down the basic limitations for
Flag operations. Subsection (d) reads "No pilot may fly more than 32 hours during any seven consecutive days."
Sec 121.503 is the corresponding section for
Supplemental operators and contains no equivelant restriction on hours in 7 days.
Back in the pre-LIDO days, we got the Jepps FDX25 which was the AIM/FARS and had all of Part 121 included. Now with LIDO, it's harder to be familiar with the actual regs, versus the company interpretations in the FOM.