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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–24 Edition) 

§§ 135.249–135.255 

§§ 135.249–135.255 [Reserved] 

Subpart F—Crewmember Flight 

Time and Duty Period Limita-
tions and Rest Requirements 

S

OURCE

: Docket No. 23634, 50 FR 29320, July 

18, 1985, unless otherwise noted. 

§ 135.261 Applicability. 

Sections 135.263 through 135.273 of 

this part prescribe flight time limita-
tions, duty period limitations, and rest 
requirements for operations conducted 
under this part as follows: 

(a) Section 135.263 applies to all oper-

ations under this subpart. 

(b) Section 135.265 applies to: 
(1) Scheduled passenger-carrying op-

erations except those conducted solely 
within the state of Alaska. ‘‘Scheduled 
passenger-carrying operations’’ means 
passenger-carrying operations that are 
conducted in accordance with a pub-
lished schedule which covers at least 
five round trips per week on at least 
one route between two or more points, 
includes dates or times (or both), and is 
openly advertised or otherwise made 
readily available to the general public, 
and 

(2) Any other operation under this 

part, if the operator elects to comply 
with § 135.265 and obtains an appro-
priate operations specification amend-
ment. 

(c) Sections 135.267 and 135.269 apply 

to any operation that is not a sched-
uled passenger-carrying operation and 
to any operation conducted solely 
within the State of Alaska, unless the 
operator elects to comply with § 135.265 
as authorized under paragraph (b)(2) of 
this section. 

(d) Section 135.271 contains special 

daily flight time limits for operations 
conducted under the helicopter emer-
gency medical evacuation service 
(HEMES). 

(e) Section 135.273 prescribes duty pe-

riod limitations and rest requirements 
for flight attendants in all operations 
conducted under this part. 

[Doc. No. 23634, 50 FR 29320, July 18, 1985, as 
amended by Amdt. 135–52, 59 FR 42993, Aug. 
19, 1994] 

§ 135.263 Flight time limitations and 

rest requirements: All certificate 

holders. 

(a) A certificate holder may assign a 

flight crewmember and a flight crew-
member may accept an assignment for 
flight time only when the applicable 
requirements of §§ 135.263 through 
135.271 are met. 

(b) No certificate holder may assign 

any flight crewmember to any duty 
with the certificate holder during any 
required rest period. 

(c) 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. 

(d) A flight crewmember is not con-

sidered to be assigned flight time in ex-
cess of flight time limitations if the 
flights to which he is assigned nor-
mally terminate within the limita-
tions, but due to circumstances beyond 
the control of the certificate holder or 
flight crewmember (such as adverse 
weather conditions), are not at the 
time of departure expected to reach 
their destination within the planned 
flight time. 

§ 135.265 Flight time limitations and 

rest requirements: Scheduled oper-

ations. 

(a) No certificate holder may sched-

ule any flight crewmember, and no 
flight crewmember may accept an as-
signment, for flight time in scheduled 
operations or in other commercial fly-
ing if that crewmember’s total flight 
time in all commercial flying will ex-
ceed— 

(1) 1,200 hours in any calendar year. 
(2) 120 hours in any calendar month. 
(3) 34 hours in any 7 consecutive days. 
(4) 8 hours during any 24 consecutive 

hours for a flight crew consisting of 
one pilot. 

(5) 8 hours between required rest peri-

ods for a flight crew consisting of two 
pilots qualified under this part for the 
operation being conducted. 

(b) Except as provided in paragraph 

(c) of this section, no certificate holder