Originally Posted by
DWC CAP10 USAF
I don’t think that’s true…it used to be a few years back but ALPA came out with a different interpretation. If you are legal to start the RAP, then you are legal to start/finish an FDP that occurs within that RAP.
For example, you start SC at noon, run out of 30/168 lookback at 1300, get assigned rotation that reports at 1400…still legal even thought the FDP start after 30/168
I think it is true, and by example a couple months ago I was the #2 available SC pilot in the exact same SC window/days of availability. I was given a trip (#1 was skipped over). I called CS and they said what I posted above, he was legal for DH-only but not for the FDP that was given to me. I submitted an STS and the ALPA response was exactly what I posted above. Not legal for the FDP, but was legal for the SC and/or a DH-only duty period.
Out of curiosity I also asked why the other pilot was even assigned SC in the first place if they were basically unusable for an actual FDP. CS told me that the automated short call assignments do not check for 30/168. Additionally they thanked me for pointing out that the other pilot was basically unusable now and they would go ahead and put him into rest.