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§ 117.23
(ii) If the circumstances giving rise
to the extension were within the cer-
tificate holder’s control, the corrective
action(s) that the certificate holder in-
tends to take to minimize the need for
future extensions.
(5) Each certificate holder must im-
plement the corrective action(s) re-
ported in paragraph (a)(4) of this sec-
tion within 30 days from the date of the
extended flight duty period.
(b) For augmented and unaugmented
operations, if unforeseen operational
circumstances arise after takeoff:
(1) The pilot in command and the cer-
tificate holder may extend maximum
flight duty periods specified in Tables
B or C of this part to the extent nec-
essary to safely land the aircraft at the
next destination airport or alternate
airport, as appropriate.
(2) An extension of the flight duty pe-
riod under paragraph (b)(1) of this sec-
tion of more than 30 minutes may
occur only once prior to receiving a
rest period described in § 117.25(b).
(3) An extension taken under para-
graph (b) of this section may exceed
the cumulative flight duty period lim-
its specified in 117.23(c).
(4) Each certificate holder must re-
port to the Administrator within 10
days any flight duty period that either
exceeded the cumulative flight duty
periods specified in § 117.23(c), or ex-
ceeded the maximum flight duty period
limits permitted by Tables B or C of
this part by more than 30 minutes. The
report must contain a description of
the circumstances surrounding the af-
fected flight duty period.
[Doc. No. FAA–2009–1093, 77 FR 398, Jan. 4,
2012; Amdt. 117–1A, 77 FR 28764, May 16, 2012;
Amdt. 117–1, 78 FR 8362, Feb. 6, 2013; 78 FR
69288, Nov. 19, 2013]
§ 117.21 Reserve status.
(a) Unless specifically designated as
airport/standby or short-call reserve by
the certificate holder, all reserve is
considered long-call reserve.
(b) Any reserve that meets the defini-
tion of airport/standby reserve must be
designated as airport/standby reserve.
For airport/standby reserve, all time
spent in a reserve status is part of the
flightcrew member’s flight duty period.
(c) For short call reserve,
(1) The reserve availability period
may not exceed 14 hours.
(2) For a flightcrew member who has
completed a reserve availability pe-
riod, no certificate holder may sched-
ule and no flightcrew member may ac-
cept an assignment of a reserve avail-
ability period unless the flightcrew
member receives the required rest in
§ 117.25(e).
(3) For an unaugmented operation,
the total number of hours a flightcrew
member may spend in a flight duty pe-
riod and a reserve availability period
may not exceed the lesser of the max-
imum applicable flight duty period in
Table B of this part plus 4 hours, or 16
hours, as measured from the beginning
of the reserve availability period.
(4) For an augmented operation, the
total number of hours a flightcrew
member may spend in a flight duty pe-
riod and a reserve availability period
may not exceed the flight duty period
in Table C of this part plus 4 hours, as
measured from the beginning of the re-
serve availability period.
(d) For long call reserve, if a certifi-
cate holder contacts a flightcrew mem-
ber to assign him or her to a flight
duty period that will begin before and
operate into the flightcrew member’s
window of circadian low, the flightcrew
member must receive a 12 hour notice
of report time from the certificate
holder.
(e) A certificate holder may shift a
reserve flightcrew member’s reserve
status from long-call to short-call only
if the flightcrew member receives a
rest period as provided in § 117.25(e).
§ 117.23 Cumulative limitations.
(a) The limitations of this section in-
clude all flying by flightcrew members
on behalf of any certificate holder or
91K Program Manager during the appli-
cable periods.
(b) No certificate holder may sched-
ule and no flightcrew member may ac-
cept an assignment if the flightcrew
member’s total flight time will exceed
the following:
(1) 100 hours in any 672 consecutive
hours or
(2) 1,000 hours in any 365 consecutive
calendar day period.
