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WRONG--your FDP ended when you set the brake on your last assigned flying inside that FDP.

Airport reserve can occur with no flight segments assigned. However, once flying is assigned, the FDP ends once the last flight segment is completed (unless more flight segments have been assigned prior to brake set on the last assigned flight segment). That's why the definition in the reg explicitly states airport rsv is only part of the FDP before or between flight segments (if any flight segments are actually assigned).

(FDP) means a
period that begins when a flightcrew
member is required to report for duty
with the intention of conducting a
flight, a series of flights, or positioning
or ferrying flights, and ends when the
aircraft is parked after the last flight and
there is no intention for further aircraft
movement by the same flightcrew
member. A flight duty period includes
the duties performed by the flightcrew
member on behalf of the certificate
holder that occur before a flight segment
or between flight segments without a
required intervening rest period.
Examples of tasks that are part of the
flight duty period include deadhead
transportation, training conducted in an
aircraft or flight simulator, and airport/
standby reserve, if the above tasks occur
before a flight segment or between flight
segments without an intervening
required rest period:

I don't think I see the word after in the reg

 

Easy there Bruce Banner. If you want to argue, perhaps you should argue with Part 117. You know, if you'd read it:

117.21(b): "Any reserve that meets the definition of airport/standby reserve must be designated as airport/standby reserve. For airport/standby reserve, all time spent in a reserve status is part of the flightcrew member's flight duty period."

I don't see after anywhere in there either.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but I am assuming from reading this thread that most of the captains have been with the company 10+ years. Are most middle of the road type captains looking to move on or stay at Mesa for the entirety of their careers? I would imagine most junior captains and all levels of FOs are looking to go to the move on to something else at some point, but I'm just trying to get a feel for the company and the labor group as I have no clue. Thanks in advance.

 

I would say about 250 captains will retire at Mesa. Just a guess though. But things can change. If the schedules continue with 11 days off then some would make the jump if the pay and base is right.

 

Anybody with a Feb or Beyond anticipated class heard anything concrete?

 

The schedules are atrocious. Min days off, barely breaking 78hrs.

Yet a pilot with vacation (7days of vacation)plus 11 days off min. Totaling 18 days off still gets a 78 hr line of flying.

So basically some pilots could have had an additional 7 days off in the month and still come out ahead.

MAG has taken a complete lackadaisical approach to the implementation of 117 and furthermore pilots are growing increasingly frustrated with the secrecy of the E175 program. The initial cadre has been selected for the project. Yet no one knows who has actually gone or how they were selected. Doesn't really matter but the only details company wide being received were from the former VP of Flight ops emails that left much to be desired? Currently CRJ upgrades are merely a trickle.

Middle of the road captains are trying desperately to get out ... But are getting reject letters. Mainline wants any name other than Bob,Steve or Tim etc.

I'm looking to jump based purely off MAG Mgmts. eminating disrespect for me as a professional. To work in an environment that is so self-deprecating is quite exhausting. *


*here comes a statement from prior121

 

What does this mean? Sorry I'm slow.

 

I think he's intimating that it is currently difficult to be hired by a legacy carrier if you're a WASP

 

Appx how many captains are there company wide?