Nice work, Contacted.
You have stated managements position perfectly by quoting the OM-A. Thank you. Oh, BTW can you explain to me while you are acting as part of the crew in the jump seat (re., augmenting), perhaps helping with the preflight, acting as a third and fourth set of eyes, acting as a "safety pilot", perhaps taking care of some issues in dispatching, or coordinating during an emergency that you are credited with zero flight hours? In fact, one would be expected to assist in an emergency in some way (but don't expect to be credited with any flight time). Only time in the
operating seat IN CRUISE. Using this logic, I should be able to relax in a pax seat prior to my being called to the flight deck for duty. But I have to be in the designated Crew "operating" Rest Facility. DH crews don't have to be in a CRC.
Gee, I thought FTL were imposed to protect from flying too much, protecting from fatigue, etc, or whatever. YOU ARE PART OF THE CREW and are expected to operate and conduct oneself accordingly. Oh, but that doesn't count towards your FTL monthly or yearly.
Can you name me some other carriers that operate in such a manner? And why was it changed approx four years ago when it had not been so for years prior? And do you think it prudent if one does two ULRs in a month not to have approx 15-18 hours a month not applied to ones monthly max? Add that to a 95 hour month and there you go......110 hrs plus a month of flying duties. I'll tell you, my logbook reflects 110 ten hours of flight time, period.
And I believe that the final FAA audit decision has actually not been officialy published....still.
Finally, do you think it "wise" to operate only to the minimum standards that an airline's regulatory agency sets forth? If that were the case then we should make everyone a captain that has the minimum age and hours to be a skipper. We are way over the minimum for upgrade according to the GCAA but we are at the absolute minimum with regards to FTL. Riddle me that.