Originally Posted by
Av8tr1
The FAA will say one thing in a FAR then a policy letter will say the exact opposite.
Show me.
"But someone told me" is a poor way to plead ignorance, and ignorance is never a relief from the law.
You're expected to know and understand the CFR. If you don't, you shouldn't be a pilot in command, and you're in the wrong business.
The regulation isn't that hard to understand, but your excuses seem to revolve around you having asked someone to explain it to you, instead of lifting a finger to help yourself.
Here's the fun part: you say (now) that you learned and wised up...yet just a post ago you told us something completely incorrect, and to back it up, said that it's how things were at previous "airlines."
You learned, yet you still don't understand or know? A post later you change your tune, and now you know, but it's the FAA's fault that you don't bother to read your operations specifications and regulations (your compliance is mandatory, and you're expected to know both). The blame-game will only get you so far, but at any given time, the concept of pilot in command means that YOU are responsible. As a crew member, even if you are not the pilot in command, YOU are responsible not only for knowing the regulation, but compliance. The concept of pilot in command is inherent in what we do as pilots: we take responsibility. We own what we do, and that ownership is total: we take ownership for our decisions, our compliance, and staying informed and abreast not only of performance and systems understanding, but the regulations, policies, and practices under which we operate. Every crewmember is responsible for this, as are you. To suggest that you can't be held responsible, or that you can't know, or that you can't understand, either because someone told you differently (can't read for yourself?) or the regulation is too hard to understand (how is it that others understand it, but not you?) smacks of ignorance and laziness.
No one expects you to lay your head on a copy of your OpSpecs or the CFR and absorb it by osmosis, but it is expected that you read it, know it, and practice it. There really isn't any excuse not to.