Flight time restriction: need clarification/informal poll
This is from ALPA: if the crewmember is scheduled to fly eight hours or less but due to circumstances beyond the control of the certificate holder the schedule is exceeded, the crewmember may complete the schedule even if the pilot flies more than eight hours between rest periods.
But what's a schedule? The entire day, or the next leg?
Let's say you have a day trip:
PHL-CVG-PHL-CVG-PHL-SYR-PHL
It's SCHEDULED at 7.8 hours.
After some delays, you find yourself in SYR already at 7.2 hours. You're not going to make it to PHL without going over 8 hours. Can you go?
How would your company interpret this?
What if you're in SYR at 8.1hrs?
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I'm sure this has been discussed before, but we could use a refresher, and I"m interested how other carriers and their respective FSDO's interpret it all.