Originally Posted by
Phoenix21
The way PDTs contract is written PBS will schedule you to FAR 117 limits for 75hrs a month credit and min days off.
A total revamp of the scheduling section and the addition of trip/duty rigs, true min day pay, hard minimum days off between trips and greater minimum days off a month, would be required to make PBS work at PDT the way schedulung works at places like AWAC and XJT.
Not saying this is the gold standard, and I absolutely hate to peddle rumors that I’m not sure about, but was recently told that the framework for PBS that PDT is trying to use came directly from TSA. NavBlue, same soft pay, etc. Time will tell.