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Old 7th Jul 2010, 07:52
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Oblaaspop
 
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King,

I think you are getting a little confused!

Flying hours are not the same as FDP. Both the UK Airlines I worked for before had the same 100 FLYING HOURS in 28 days limitation as we do here..... Basically the UAE GCAA CAR's are a carbon copy of the UK CAP371 (as has previously been mentioned).

Think about it logically eg. You are working for a UK Charter Airline, you report at LGW at 1000hrs for a 1100 departure to PMI (a block time of 1hr 45mins) you spend 2 hrs on the ground at PMI due to a slot and get back to LGW at 1630.

Your total FDP (the time from REPORT to Blocks on back at LGW) is 5.5 hours against a 'FLIGHT TIME' of only 3.5 hours. So using your logic, in a UK roster full of LGW-PMI-LGW you would only actually achieve around 60 FLYING hours before you hit YOUR (incorrect) 100 hour FDP 'Limit'.

Unfortunately you are not the first and will certainly not be the last person to fall foul of the poorly written, badly laid out lawyer diatribe written in the CAP371, so don't worry about it!

Hope this helps?
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