Originally Posted by
Carmoisine
Yet the FTLs make no allowances for these differences.
Not sure which FTLs you refer to, but CAP371 certainly does (not that I am defending it). The items that affect a FDP length are; duty start time and number of sectors. Generally speaking, the more unsocial the start time the fewer hours you can do, and the more sectors you do the fewer duty hours you can do. Do Ryanair pilots work under some other system that does not work like this?
PP