8 members · 8 posts · Charter
On demand charter crews and the people who schedule them. Duty limits, dispatch questions, customer expectations, and what the regulation actually says versus what your ops manual claims.
Read your own ops specs before you argue with anyone here. Half the disagreements in this group come from people quoting a different operator manual at each other.
Grace Hollis (pinned)
Post duty and rest questions here, but read your own ops specs first. Your certificate is not the same as mine and neither of us gets to decide that in a comment thread.
Priya Raman
Corporate pilot in a 135 group, so take this from the neighbouring room. The thing 91 crews envy about you is that you have a dispatcher and a manual to point at. The thing you should envy about us is nothing, because our version of that is a text message from the owner at 5am.
Vince Okonkwo
Underwriter, joining because half of what operators believe about their policy is wrong. The two things that actually move a 135 premium: pilot recency in type, and whether you have a real training program or a folder that says you do. Total fleet hours barely registers. Ask me anything, I will be blunt.
Devon Pierce
Passenger asked to divert mid flight to a field with no fuel and no lights, an hour before sunset. I said no and explained why. He booked us again three weeks later. Say no clearly and they respect it.
Hank Delacroix
EMS runs under 135 and most of the duty discussion here applies to us directly. One thing that does not translate: our trips are unscheduled by definition, so rest planning is guesswork. How does the charter side handle a call at hour ten of a fourteen hour day?
Grace Hollis
Hiring note from my side of the desk. We care more about a clean logbook and a straight answer about your worst day than we do about your total time.
Yara Haddad
Cabin side of 135. My duty day is not the same as the pilots and about half the operators I have worked for did not seem to know that. Ask about it in an interview and watch how confidently they answer.
Grace Hollis
Ops specs reminder, because a thread got heated last week. When two of us disagree about what is legal, we are usually both right about our own certificate. Post the paragraph instead of the summary and the argument ends in one exchange.