Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I am curious reading this thread how Alaska handles pay and FAR flight time. It sounds like at Alaska the pay clock starts when the cabin door closes. That is a clear improvement over most airlines where it is based on pushback. How are times tracked? Do you have one set of times for pay and another set for actual FAR flight time? What is the trigger for a acars out message? I have seen parking brake release, beacon on and GPS groundspeed in use on various aircraft and airlines. Trying to sort out how this ties into the deice issue.
Other airlines have kept separate books for pay vs. FAR block.
In fact at least one regional recently changed block to start at the actual FAR definition of "beginning of taxi under own power", vice brake drop or push. That allowed them to squeeze more annual block out of the pilot group. They still pay the pilots at the traditional door closed/brake drop.