Cabin Crew FDP Log Books
 

As cabin crew I understand that we are expected to keep records of our FDP. How many of us out there do - sort of - but might admit to not really having a full understanding of your company FTL scheme. Have you ever looked at it? Do you think that we should keep a log in the same way that cabin crew do in some of the European countries?
I have been flying for twenty years and I think it would be nice to have had a log of all the different flights I did!

richterscale10,

I keep a log of all the sectors I do.

Used to be in a book but now in a spreadsheet for the computer. It calculates all the miles, all the hours and how many times I have been to each place and on each plane.

Quite often look back through it and remember he good and bad SCCM's I flew with;)

Richter, making an assumption here, but I think you've misunderstood the FDP scheme. You are ultimately responsible for making sure that you are flying within the legal minimums set out in CAP371 (i.e., you have had the appropriate rest between duties, you are aware of the legal hours you can operate on day x based on report time and sectors to be flown etc), rather than actually logging each and every duty you do.

Personally I make a note of each of my duty starts and finishes, but that's simply so I can check that all my allowances are accounted for.

Regretably very, very few crew really understand the rules around FDPs other than the hours off duty, but blame for this rests equally with airlines who do not go over it in initial training (I know Go-Fly spent a half day going through it and explaining the rules when I started with them). If you sit down and read through the CAP371 rules and take the time to get your head round it, it's actually quite straight forward. I've condensed the rules down into some basic points along with examples to make it easier for me to understand.