Questionnaire on NATIONAL Flight Time Limitations 24 March 2005

Introduction

The purpose of this survey is to review national FTL regulations/legislation in the different countries in Europe. Please take approx. 30 minutes to fill in this survey.

Instructions

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General
1. Your country

2. Name of the union
3. Your e-mail address

4. Do you have national legislation or regulations concerning FTL?



If you answered yes, please answer the following questions with regard to the national regulations/legislation. If you don't have national FTL regulations/legislation of, stop filling in.

Definitions (as in the Subpart Q proposal)

Block Time
 The time between an aeroplane first moving from its parking place for the purpose of taking off until it comes to rest on the designated parking position and all engines or propellers are stopped.
Break
 A period free of all duties, which counts as duty, being less than a rest period.
Duty
 Any task that a crew member is required to carry out associated with the business of an AOC holder. Unless where specific rules are provided for by this Regulation, the Authority shall define whether and to what extent standby is to be accounted for as duty.
Duty period
 A period which starts when a crew member is required by an operator to commence a duty and ends when the crew member is free from all duties.
Flight Duty Period
 A Flight Duty Period (FDP) is any time during which a person operates in an aircraft as a member of its crew. The FDP starts when the crew member is required by an operator to report for a flight or a series of flights; it finishes at the end of the last flight on which he/she is an operating crew member.
Home base
 The location nominated by the operator to the crew member from where the crew member normally starts and ends a duty period or a series of duty periods and where, under normal conditions, the operator is not responsible for the accommodation of the crew member concerned.
Local Day
 A 24 hour period commencing at 00:00 local time.
Local Night
 A period of 8 hours falling between 22:00 hours and 08:00 hours local time.
A Single Day free of Duty
 A single day free of duty shall include two local nights. A rest period may be included as part of the day off.
Operating crew member
 A crew member who carries out his/her duties in an aircraft during a flight or during any part of a flight.
Positioning
 The transferring of a non-operating crew member from place to place, at the behest of the operator, excluding travelling time.
 Travelling time is definded as:
 - time from home to a designated reporting place and vice versa;
 - time for local transfer from a place of rest to the commencement of duty and vice versa.
Rest period
 An uninterrupted and defined period of time during which a crew member is free from all duties and airport standby.
Standby
 A defined period of time during which a crew member is required by the operator to be available to receive an assignment for a flight, positioning or other duty without an intervening rest period.
Window of Circadian Low (WOCL)
 The Window of Circadian Low (WOCL) is the period between 02:00 and 05:59 hours. Within a band of three time zones refers to home base time. Beyond these three time zones the WOCL refers to home base time for the first 48 hours after departure from home base time zone, and to local time thereafter.
5. If there are any differences in definitions in your national legislation, please describe them:

Flight and Duty Limitations

If there is no limit in one of the categories, please write 'none' in the corresponding box.
6. What is the yearly limit of flight time (block) and duty time in your national legislation?
General limit Short-haul Long-haul
Flight Time (Block)
Duty Time

7. What is the quarterly limit of flight time (block) and duty time in your national legislation?
General limit Short-haul Long-haul
Flight Time (Block)
Duty Time

8. What is the 28 days limit of flight time (block) and duty time in your national legislation?
General limit Short-haul Long-haul
Flight Time (Block)
Duty Time

9. What is the weekly (7 days) limit of flight time (block) and duty time in your national legislation?
General limit Short-haul Long-haul
Flight Time (Block)
Duty Time

10. What is the daily limit of flight time (block) and duty time in your national legislation
(for standard crew complement, not augmented)?
General limit Short-haul Long-haul
Flight Time (Block)
Duty Time

11. What is the maximum allowed extension of duty time from homebase according to your national legislation?





12. What is the maximum allowed extension of duty time to homebase according to your national legislation?





13. What is the maximum number of legs per day according to your national legislation?




14. Are there any other flight/duty time limits in your national legislation?
If so, please specify in your own words:

Split duty
15. Does your FTL allow split duty (extended flight duty consisting of two parts divided
by less than the minimum legal rest)?



Rest periods
16. What is the minimum rest in hours ...
... on a homebase?
... away from homebase?

17. Does this minimum rest include transport time?



18. Minimum days off at homebase
If there is no limit in one of the categories, please write 'none' in the corresponding box.
General limit Short haul Long haul
Month
Quarterly (3 months)
Year

19. Does your FTL contain provision on weekends off?





20. Do you have a provision on minimum number of consecutive rest days at base per month?



21. If so, please state how many consecutive days and how many per month?


Standby
22. Is there a limit on maximum number of standby? If so, please state the period.

23. Maximum length of standby
Max. hrs
Airport
Home/hotel (other than airport)

24. Does standby at home/hotel count as duty time?



25. If yes, please state by what percentage:
Home
Hotel


Nutrition
26. Does your FTL contain provisions on nutrition?



27. If yes, what is the content (more answers possible)




28. Does your national legislation have provisions on additional rest after time-zones crossing?



29. If so, please specify those provisions:

30. Does your national legislation have provisions on captains discretion regarding extension
of flight duty period and/or decrease in minimum rest?



31. If so, please specify those provisions:


Do you have any other provisions in your national legislation that are not covered by this questionnaire?
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