Originally Posted by
250 or point 65
Say I fly a normal schedule on day 1, have an overnight at exactly 8 hrs rest, followed by a scheduled 14 hr duty day ending with the deadhead home to start vacation. Things get delayed on duty day 2 and now my deadhead will take me over 16 hrs (17hrs), I don't believe I'm legal to take the deadhead because my compensatory rest must begin 24 hours after the start of the reduced rest. In this case, 25 hrs ago (17 hrs of duty and 8 hrs of rest)
Compensatory rest is the one grey area because of the way they worded it. (See Above).
The FAA's intent is not to police your life at the end of the flying day...what possible benefit would that provide to the travellng public? None Whatsover. Ask any 121 POI if you want a warm fuzzy answer to back this up.