Originally Posted by
maveric311
You have a source for this? and last I checked we are governed by the FAA not ICAO. I see nothing in the FARS that support this.
I've posted this section at least a couple times on these boards.
FAR 61.159.a.4
(4) 250 hours of flight time in an airplane as a pilot in command, or as second in command performing the duties of pilot in command while under the supervision of a pilot in command, or any combination thereof
In fact, I think I may quote this section more than any other source I have to post on these forums. It seems there are quite a few of you who do not keep up with reading your FARs. You never know what useless facts you might come up with. That is, useless until you have a Fed on your jumpseat hassle you and you remember an obscure regulation exonerating your. Then, those little things become quite useful.
EDIT: Oh, and actually, in many ways, you ARE governed by ICAO. Other than the fact that the FAA is governed by ICAO, AE, as an international carrier, must submit to the sometimes stricter regulations of ICAO. For instance, in their CA minimums of 1200 hours of TT.
FAR 61.159.d
(d) An applicant may be issued an airline transport pilot certificate with the endorsement, “Holder does not meet the pilot in command aeronautical experience requirements of ICAO,” as prescribed by Article 39 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, if the applicant:
(1) Credits second-in-command or flight-engineer time under paragraph (c) of this section toward the 1,500 hours total flight time requirement of paragraph (a) of this section;
(2) Does not have at least 1,200 hours of flight time as a pilot, including no more than 50 percent of his or her second-in-command time and none of his or her flight-engineer time; and
(3) Otherwise meets the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section.
(e) When the applicant specified in paragraph (d) of this section presents satisfactory evidence of the accumulation of 1,200 hours of flight time as a pilot including no more than 50 percent of his or her second-in-command flight time and none of his or her flight-engineer time, the applicant is entitled to an airline transport pilot certificate without the endorsement prescribed in that paragraph.