EK Fleet Facts Revisits Sim Support Duties
Now the way I read this any crew member running up to 830 flight hours in the previous 12 months may be rostered for five 4 hour sim support duties and five standby sim support duties as well as up to 70 hours of flying but will still remain legal to operate in the next calendar month.
Furthermore any crew member who exceeds 900 hours in twelve months and therefore is legally obliged to take the next calendar month off can also expect to be rostered for up to 40 hours of simulator duties in his notional month of recovery.
However it seems that crew will not be rostered for night sim duties as this would be too tiring for them.
So who has decided that day sim duties are acceptable and night sim duties are not? And what is the difference? This seems to be an illegal and subjective endorsement applied to mandatory flight time limitations.
Presumably it is published in the Fleet Facts circular for the very reason that it may be illegal, or at best a grey area, and therefore cannot appear in the FOM or FCIs, for if it did the regulatory authority would chuck it out.