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lucky81698 · 08-27-2006, 07:14 PM

The FAA does mandate rest periods. The min rest is 8 hours, which is usually 15 minutes (debrief time) after block in. I guess they expect the crews to vaporize themselves from the jetway to their hotel beds. CDO's are legal because technically the rest period was during the day. So if they show up at 9pm do a one hour flight starting at 10pm, land at 11pm then show up again at 530am for a 6am flight then fly for 1 hour then they go off duty at say 715 am considering the debrief, they are really only on duty for 10 hours 15 minutes. Then their rest period would start at 715am and if they did the same thing that night they would have 13 hours 45 minutes of rest. It's like having a 5 hour sit time during the day but they go to a hotel instead of sitting in the airport. That's how they claim it is legal. I think it is way beyond safe and complete nonsense to have these types of schedules. Some of the pairings at CAL, while not CDO's I think they are less than safe too. For instance doing the early flight from EWR-PHX getting into PHX around 10am then going out that same night at 10pm back to EWR. I don't know anyone that would want to do that and if DH gets one of those I have always changed it.
Anyway, back to the Comair flight, I saw some stuff on other message boards saying the crew actually got in on Friday night and had a 28 hour overnight. Guess it's all speculation until the offically say how long the crew had for a rest period. Has anyone seen any info about the condition of the FO?

08-27-2006, 07:14 PM	#12 (permalink)
lucky81698 Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 1 Posts: 886 Recipes: Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Comair Crash The FAA does mandate rest periods. The min rest is 8 hours, which is usually 15 minutes (debrief time) after block in. I guess they expect the crews to vaporize themselves from the jetway to their hotel beds. CDO's are legal because technically the rest period was during the day. So if they show up at 9pm do a one hour flight starting at 10pm, land at 11pm then show up again at 530am for a 6am flight then fly for 1 hour then they go off duty at say 715 am considering the debrief, they are really only on duty for 10 hours 15 minutes. Then their rest period would start at 715am and if they did the same thing that night they would have 13 hours 45 minutes of rest. It's like having a 5 hour sit time during the day but they go to a hotel instead of sitting in the airport. That's how they claim it is legal. I think it is way beyond safe and complete nonsense to have these types of schedules. Some of the pairings at CAL, while not CDO's I think they are less than safe too. For instance doing the early flight from EWR-PHX getting into PHX around 10am then going out that same night at 10pm back to EWR. I don't know anyone that would want to do that and if DH gets one of those I have always changed it. Anyway, back to the Comair flight, I saw some stuff on other message boards saying the crew actually got in on Friday night and had a 28 hour overnight. Guess it's all speculation until the offically say how long the crew had for a rest period. Has anyone seen any info about the condition of the FO?