'Discretion'.
Folks.
What is the purpose of permitting duty day to be extended by the exercise of Commanders Discetion?
What I'm after is one of these two;
1. Is it purely for the company's benefit when, say, the crew are too low on hours to operate?
So a crew are asked to exercise discretion (assuming of course, they are willing) to operate any flight for commercial reasons.
I realise they may decline.
or
2. Is it to allow a crew that are willing to operate, to breach the FTLs purely for the purpose of getting home?
In other words, the FTLs would normally stop them away from home-as they have insufficient hours to fly, but they're not tired and WANT to fly HOME (not away from base).
I know what our ops manual says, but what was the original intent when someone dreamt up this plan to delberately exceed the FTL hours?
Ta