Originally Posted by
buzzpat
If ACMI charter crews are pushed beyond their limits, and I would argue that they are not since I spent 20 years flying similar schedules under the same guidelines, wouldn't the White House, Congress, the Senate and the Pentagon also be complicit? Don't know why your singling out Inhofe because he made a stupid decision in his Cessna.
As I recall, max augmented crew day on the Lizard was 24 hrs. I left MAC in '85, so that may have changed.
Contrast that with my longest Atlas day: 35 hrs Sao Paulo - Lima - Mexico City - LAX with extended sits at each stop, making it all perfectly legal. I was an FO at the time and the Capt fended off our mutinous desires.