Looking at our FTL scheme (
and CAR OPS) it defines 'Flight Duty Period' (FDP) as starting from time the crew member commences duty (
i.e. report time) and ends at chocks-on / engines-off at the end of the last sector.
However, wrt to the 100hr flying limit within 28 days, it makes reference to '
the aggregate of all previous flight times'... and yet seemingly nowhere is the term '
flight times' defined.
So is it referring to:
- 100 hours of FDP? or
- 100 hours total block-to-block? or
- 100 hours total take-off to landing?
I ask because, with the nature of flying that we are presently doing (
short-haul multi-sectors) here in GCAA land, one can easily do 9 hours of FDP yet only achieve only 5 hours total block-to-block..... and if you do enough of this (
and we do) it amounts to a large difference between the two.
So has anybody got a definitive answer and / or reference for this under the GCAR's?