Originally Posted by
JETUPANDGO
Our salaried pilots spend an average of 15-17 days at home, of that time at home they get 2 hard days (1 day = Midnight-0600 the following day or 30 hours) and 2 soft days (we will call them last). If they are not on a hard day, they are on call, or available to fly. Am I correct when I say that some of you believe that the time that our pilots spend at home, collecting a salary, is duty time, and that I can actually never call them, because they are not at rest?
No. It is not duty time. ...but if they're teathered to a phone (because you
might call), then it is not
rest.
The FAA doesn't care about Duty time for 135. Rest is all that matters. If they can't look back 24 hours and find 10 consecutive hours of
rest, they cannot accept nor can they be assigned to duty for the certificate holder.
-mini