Flight And Duty Times (Private Operations)

Question 1

How many hours can you fly in 12 months?

Answer 1

1200 hours

Question 2

How many hours can you fly in 90 days?

Answer 2

300 hours.

Question 3

How many hours can you fly in 30 days?

Answer 3

120 hours.

Question 4

How many hours of single pilot IFR can you fly in 24 hours?

Answer 4

8 hours.

Question 5

No private operator shall assign flight duty to a crew member if the flight duty period would exceed ___ consecutive hours in a period of ___ consecutive hours. Or ___ consecutive hours in a period of ___ consecutive hours if the flight crew members total flight duty period in the previous 30 days does not exceed 70 hours or the rest period before the flight is at least 24 hours.

Answer 5

14, 24
15, 24

Question 6

The flight duty period may be extended up to ___ hours if the PIC and other crew members consider it safe to do so.

Answer 6

4 hours. The operator also must give the crew notice before their duty period starts and provide the crew with a rest period of at least 4 hours. The next minimum rest period also gets increased to at least the amount of time they got extended for duty.

Question 7

An air operator must provide a flight crew member with time to eat and drink for at least ___ minutes every ___ hours within a flight duty period.

Answer 7

15 minutes every 6 hours.