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Originally Posted by Sailaway
CEFO, rolling rest is not black and white. Using the example above, you would only be off duty for 2 hours. How do you plan your sleep? That sucks. And 680, the big difference in the poison is that if you stayed at the airport, you would then have a full 10 hours rest.
What you're really talking about is not having a predefined duty on time, and that sometimes can make it difficult to appropriately plan rest. However, If a crew member is tired or hasn't slept well, they should not accept the trip. The magic F word makes the issue moot. I'd much rather be flexible and relax at the hotel rather than sit crew rot at the FBO. If both the company and the crew are reasonable and are committed to not flying fatigued, this really isn't the issue so many Netjet's pilots try to make it out to be. Now if a company pushes pilots into doing foolish things, that's a different story. However, it's not the case here. We very often have a pretty good idea what we're doing the next day anyway.
Oh, and since you brought it up, maybe you can explain something to me? If the NJA crews are so well rested, why are they always snoring in the crew rooms? There is science behind rest and fatigue, and simply having 10 hours off out of 24 ignores Circadian Law and significantly falls short of ISBAO best practices regardless of whether you have a predetermined report time or not. Whether you agree or disagree, please do us a favor, and stop the self righteous preaching.