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§ 121.473 

begin no later than 24 hours after the 
commencement of the reduced rest pe-
riod. 

(3) A rest required under paragraph 

(b)(3) of this section may be scheduled 
for or reduced to a minimum of 9 hours 
if the flight crewmember is given a rest 
period of at least 12 hours that must 
begin no later than 24 hours after the 
commencement of the reduced rest pe-
riod. 

(4) No certificate holder may assign, 

nor may any flight crewmember per-
form any flight time with the certifi-
cate holder unless the flight crew-
member has had at least the minimum 
rest required under this paragraph. 

(d) Each certificate holder con-

ducting domestic operations shall re-
lieve each flight crewmember engaged 
in scheduled air transportation from 
all further duty for at least 24 consecu-
tive hours during any 7 consecutive 
days. 

(e) No certificate holder conducting 

domestic operations may assign any 
flight crewmember and no flight crew-
member may accept assignment to any 
duty with the air carrier during any re-
quired rest period. 

(f) Time spent in transportation, not 

local in character, that a certificate 
holder requires of a flight crewmember 
and provides to transport the crew-
member to an airport at which he is to 
serve on a flight as a crewmember, or 
from an airport at which he was re-
lieved from duty to return to his home 
station, is not considered part of a rest 
period. 

(g) A flight crewmember is not con-

sidered to be scheduled for flight time 
in excess of flight time limitations if 
the flights to which he is assigned are 
scheduled and normally terminate 
within the limitations, but due to cir-
cumstances beyond the control of the 
certificate holder (such as adverse 
weather conditions), are not at the 
time of departure expected to reach 
their destination within the scheduled 
time. 

[Doc. No. 23634, 50 FR 29319, July 18, 1985, as 
amended by Amdt. 121–253, 61 FR 2612, Jan. 
26, 1996] 

§ 121.473 Fatigue risk management 

system. 

(a) No certificate holder may exceed 

any provision of this subpart unless ap-
proved by the FAA under a Fatigue 
Risk Management System. 

(b) The Fatigue Risk Management 

System must include: 

(1) A fatigue risk management pol-

icy. 

(2) An education and awareness train-

ing program. 

(3) A fatigue reporting system. 
(4) A system for monitoring 

flightcrew fatigue. 

(5) An incident reporting process. 
(6) A performance evaluation. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2009–1093, 77 FR 403, Jan. 4, 
2012] 

Subpart R—Flight Time Limitations: 

Flag Operations 

S

OURCE

: Docket No. 6258, 29 FR 19217, Dec. 

31, 1964; 30 FR 3639, Mar. 19, 1965, unless oth-
erwise noted. 

§ 121.480 Applicability. 

This subpart prescribes flight time 

limitations and rest requirements for 
flag all-cargo operations, except that: 

(a) Certificate holders conducting op-

erations with aircraft having a pas-
senger seat configuration of 30 seats or 
fewer, excluding each crewmember 
seat, and a payload capacity of 7,500 
pounds or less, may comply with the 
applicable requirements of §§ 135.261 
through 135.273 of this chapter. 

(b) A certificate holder may apply 

the flightcrew member flight time and 
duty limitations and requirements of 
part 117 of this chapter. A certificate 
holder may choose to apply part 117 to 
its— 

(1) All-cargo operations conducted 

under contract to a U.S. government 
agency. 

(2) All-cargo operations not con-

ducted under contract to a U.S. Gov-
ernment agency, 

(3) A certificate holder may elect to 

treat operations in paragraphs (b)(1) 
and (b) (2) of this section differently 
but, once having decided to conduct 
those operations under part 117, may