Originally Posted by
am111
I may have misread your tone, but in case it wasn’t sarcastic, your maths might be a little too simple there. It is in the busy summer months when you are working close to your max rolling duty limits and going into discretion because of delays beyond your control that you will easily exceed 17.3 flying hours. The past 3 days alone my roster has me flying 33 hours. That’s not including the scheduled or delayed time on the ground. Granted, we may get a respite in a few months in winter but that’s hardly very safety conscious.
You are far to generous. You are just quoting block time. Not including pre-flight post flight and the periods on the ground that can be quite long. Don’t also forget in the yearly 900 doesn’t include anything except block hours, no recurrency, no simulator, no training modules etc etc.