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FAQ – Fitness for Duty and Fatigue Education and Training.
FAQ – Daily Flight Time Limitations.
FAQ – Daily Flight Duty Time Limitations – Un-augmented flightcrew.
FAQ – Daily Flight Duty Time Limitations – Augmented flightcrew.
FAQ – Cumulative Flight Time and Flight Duty Time
FAQ – Flight Duty Time Extensions
FAQ – Daily Flight Duty Time Limitations – Split Duty.
FAQ – Consecutive nighttime operations.
FAQ – Emergency and government sponsored operations
A pdf version of the FAQ is available here:
Understanding FAR 117 
Question regarding commuting … my company buys us tickets for our commutes to work in Denver ( a nicety for sure ) for our Part 121 carrier . They have recently begun swapping crews out at an outstation ( ORD). They fly me from my home in SoCal to ORD .. this is believe is a deadhead They insist this is just a commute to work and not duty and I disagree. Opinion ?
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117.3 has the definition.
Duty – means any task that a flightcrew member performs as required by the certificate holder, including but not limited to flight duty period, flight duty, pre- and post-flight duties, administrative work, training, deadhead transportation, aircraft positioning on the ground, aircraft loading, and aircraft servicing.
It’s duty in accordance to the regulations. Your Collective Bargining Agreement may/may not have a different concept that I am not specifically aware of.
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I am a flight attendant for a nationally known airline. I am concerned how all of this will affect us. It seems to me that these new rulings are going to change the way our own work rules apply to our schedules. Please inform. Thank you.
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Donna,
It will most certainly have an impact. Not sure whether your airlines assign crew as “Teams”, if so, even if the FA’s operate under 121 subpart P and not under the pilot rules, they will most likely end the duty at the same time as the pilots. Gone from the pilot rules is the concept of compensatory rest following reduced rest, while the FA’s still have this concept. so even if the pilot has had a 10 hr rest period before starting a FDP, the FA could have been required to have had a 12 or 14 hr rest period, so as a team, the pilots will need to wait for the FA’s to be legal.
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Some of the information seems to contradict what the FAA originally wrote, why did the FAA change their mind?
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They had a bad morning Joe
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Yep…. Lately everybody has been having bad mornings.
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