Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
Now say that last leg is delayed for whatever reason and now your duty day with the scheduled block time for that last leg and the 15 min debrief will exceed 16 hrs. You are not even legal to start that leg since you will be exceeding the FAR 16 hour duty day, correct?
correct. furthermore, it applies to both block and flight time. You may not push past the time that a push from the gate plus the block time plus your duty off time, would put you over 16 hrs of duty. You may not takeoff if the expected flight time plus taxi time plus duty off time puts you over a 16 hr duty day. however, legal to start the flight, legal to end it (say you got delayed in the air).