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Originally Posted by EXPAT1 (Post 2334035)

If you fly 80 hours per month that is 960 per year. I doubt you would get much overtime towards the 1000 hour limit possibly 20 hours overtime is about all you could obtain before scheduling would shot you off on the 1000 hour limit.

Do other countries have a 1000 hour limit as well?

UAE (Emirates and Etihad) has 900/year. Of course their way around it is to NOT count any bunk time on the long haul flights thereby having their crews fly well in excess lf 1000/yr.

Kap

You will be under the Chinese legal system

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/former-f...234329198.html

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 2467125)

You will be under the Chinese legal system

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/former-f...234329198.html

That article is really enlightening. Thanks for posting it.

See if you can dig out the e-book “Flying Upside Down”... It’s a pretty accurate description of flying in China, (written by a former disgruntled expat pilot)

My current rotation is 3 weeks on/ 3 weeks off. It can br brutal. As was mentioned earlier, time limitation are 40 hours a week, 100 a month. 36 hours consecutive rest required per rolling seven day period. Means I normally work 5 on, 1 off or so.

And pay attention to things that are not in the contracts. For example, vacation rules are not in the contracts that the agencies release. While I am on a 3/3 rotation, I can not take more than 15 days in Jan/Feb or July/Aug... and have to arrange my schedule so that I rotate every year Christmas home or in China. My advice, if you are considering it, get a relationship with someone at the particular airline you are looking at. They can give you the ins and outs and the gotchas at their airline.

It is a different world and takes effort to make it.