Quote:
"No certificate holder may schedule and no flightcrew member may accept an assignment for any reserve or flight duty period unless the flightcrew member is given a rest period immediately before beginning the reserve or flight duty period measured from the time the flightcrew member is released from duty."
Without it, the sentence is fully grammatical and carries out the gist of its content: You need a rest period, and the rest period itself must be immediately before beginning the reserve/FDP, and is measured from release from the previous duty.
"Of at least 10 consecutive hours" is a quality of the rest period, which may as well be 500 hours. Nothing about the clause, or its relation to the rest of the sentence, implies that the 8 hour sleep opportunity must be contained in the last 10 hours of the rest period.
Originally Posted by vessbot
If you take out the subordinate clause "of at least 10 consecutive hours" the sentence reads:"No certificate holder may schedule and no flightcrew member may accept an assignment for any reserve or flight duty period unless the flightcrew member is given a rest period immediately before beginning the reserve or flight duty period measured from the time the flightcrew member is released from duty."
Without it, the sentence is fully grammatical and carries out the gist of its content: You need a rest period, and the rest period itself must be immediately before beginning the reserve/FDP, and is measured from release from the previous duty.
"Of at least 10 consecutive hours" is a quality of the rest period, which may as well be 500 hours. Nothing about the clause, or its relation to the rest of the sentence, implies that the 8 hour sleep opportunity must be contained in the last 10 hours of the rest period.
I’m picturing this cujo person having that light bulb moment where he/she finally realizes they’re wrong. It seems pretty clear that the 8 hour sleep opportunity does not have to occur within the last 10 hours of the rest period.
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