Quality of life has nothing to do with working 4, 3 day weeks a month. It has everything to do with being able to acclimate for a week of night flying then re-acclimate to the day schedule on your week off.

Nice way to question my judgement, but you would be wrong in that regard.

What does "re-acclimate to the day schedule on your week off" have to do with the safe operation of aircraft? If you're acclimated for your duty period, that is enhancing safety of flight. If you're unacclimated for attending your daughter's dance recital or your buddy's BBQ on your days off, then safety of flight is not compromised.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your concern with the new rules.

That is a good point about multiple body clock swaps. The company is mostly blind to it. 24 hr layovers on short, TAFB trips appear to be a fix all when optimizing our flying for the lowest cost.

ALPA has been unable to convince them to stop. I would like a little help from new rules.

I don't disagree with you. I'm just also concerned with the unintended consequence's of the new rules.

It's not the being home time it's the at work time (night) when you are working 3-4 nights on then have 3-4 days off on a regular basis.

§ 117.27 Consecutive nighttime operations.
No certificate holder may schedule and no flightcrew member may accept more than three consecutive nighttime flight duty periods unless the certificate holder provides an opportunity to rest during the flight duty period in accordance with § 117.17.

§ 117.17 Flight duty period: Split duty.
For a split duty period, a certificate holder may extend and a flightcrew member may accept a flight duty period up to 50 percent of time that the flightcrew member spent in a suitable accommodation up to a maximum flight duty period of 12 hours provided the flightcrew member is given a minimum opportunity to rest in a suitable accommodation of 4 hours, measured from the time the flightcrew member reaches the rest facility.

The above is what I found. There may be exceptions etc...... YMMV

it absolutely frightens me that you're an MD11 captain.... I pray maybe for a bottom feeder like Skylease, as I can't imagine Fedex or UPS hiring someone with that much lack of judgement.

to the OP, I've called as have all my friends... keep up the good fight.

Obviously you haven't read the entire thread.

yeah, because FedEx and UPS pilots are better than pilots at places like SkyLease:rolleyes:

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I read the entire thread.. Obviously you haven't read the NPRM ... IT's only been out for two years...

Better pilots? not really... I didn't say anything about pilot skill..