Originally Posted by
Cycle Pilot
I have a PBS question. I'm on the -88 and I noticed this message for July...
**Attention all domestic pilots: The reserve parameter settings for your categories have been expanded up to nine consecutive Maximum Days On.
How can you be on for nine consecutive days as a domestic pilot? That's not a legal schedule because there's no 24 hour break from duty in there? I'm a little confused at how they can let PBS build schedules that violate the FAR's.
There was a discussion (a couple of weeks ago?) on this and I think the gist of it was it's a look back rule not a look forward rule. In other words, you have to be able to look back 7 days and see a 24 hr free of duty period. If you come up to your 7 days then the company cannot assign you a trip until they give you the 24hrs off. They would have to give you a 24 hr+ notification of a trip assignment to get you the required duty free period. At least that's my limited understanding. This assuming you are on reserve because that's what the "Maximum days on" in your post is refering to.
When you are on call you are not on duty but you are not off either.
Denny