Originally Posted by
2muchfr8time
In one interpretation they said if you're on reserve for 7 days, and don't fly it's considered rest, but if you were called any of the 7 days it's not rest so I dunno
Which interpretation? I'd
really like to read that because it's exactly the opposite of the interpretations they've written saying rest has to be known in advance. For now, I'm going to raise the shenanigans flag to this one.
I personally have never heard of anyone getting violated for rest time regulations.
hahahahahahahahaha
Consider yourself lucky. I know of at least one operator that had the POI come in and audit the records and say "well that's funny...when was the rest period?" and violated the pilot and slapped the company on the wrist.
I would imagine that most FSDO's turn a blind eye to the practice because the cost of the extra pilots to cover the gap would cripple or kill most small 135 operators and realistically almost any flight could be canceled because of schedule conflicts if someone were to start arguing about duty time and being on call.
That makes it okay. It's okay to operate illegally if the extra cost associated with safe and legal operations would cause a company to go under. It's called "the cost of doing business". If you can't afford to operate safe and legally, you should be out of business...especially this business.
As far as snitching people off for your interpretations of the regulations
I'll stop you right there because it isn't SR22's interpretations. It's the FAA's and they're pretty darn clear on it. The nice thing is that your FSDO doesn't have the power to legally interpret regulations, so the excuse of "well our FSDO said" holds no weight nor is it relevant. The FAA has spoken on this and their word is final. If you
choose not to follow rest regulations, I can't stop you...I'm just another pilot. Just do me a favor and don't ball one up because you were up all day and got a call at 10 at night to go cover a trip when you were winding down for bed.
Why do companies get away with it? Because pilots like some of the folks posting in this thread are willing to put up with it so they can have a job. They're also the same ones that complain about training contracts, low pay and FOs paying for their seat (generally). Typically, they do just as much damage by putting up with "on call" and not saying anything.
-mini