The next question will be: Is five minutes enough time for pre-flight planning, pre-flight, start-up, taxi, and takeoff?

Ok depending on who exactly? 

The customer won't really care.  Some bean counter nerd at the FAA might raise a few questions though.  

What's the question here?  Are you inferring that pre-flight duties took place during the "scheduled rest" period?  

This refers to the captain coming off crew rest and doing the flight.

In an operation where the safety program is a joke, and the safety officer is just in charge of being thrown under the bus, the FAA might have cause for concern.  I think that landing five minutes before entering crew rest and being scheduled for a takeoff five minutes after crew rest is insufficient time for post-flight and pre-flight duties. With this in mind, I infer nothing.

The question is clear. You can draw your own inferences.

in anything other than scheduled air. Take off when you are ready. It's what pilots do.

Hopefully, you'll never take a job at a company that does this sort of thing. It appears that you have a solid conception of right, wrong, and safety. Take the job and be the nail that sticks its head up. See what happens.

no safety department or anything in place? You are either not given enough time to prepare for the flight or you have to come in before the 10 hours. What kind of operation is it?

I have worked for for three large HEMS  Providers and I must say that I have seen pressure applied in the sense of take  your time but hurry up. I use to react to this and I certainly felt pressured. Then I ran in to some old souls that showed me that you could still get the job done and keep everyone happy even if it took 20 mins longer than the fastest guy or girl at your Base. 

As I was told ,, yes there may be some short term noise and discomfort , but it will move on to someone  or something else very quickly and your situation will soon be a past memory. 

So if I arrive at Base and am told there is a flight pending and I need to move fast etc etc... I agree with everyone  go take my normal speed to preflight etc ,, hell I may even pour a cup of coffee before  I brief the crew and low and behold I never seem to have an issue where anyone cares or remembers about that need for speed ... and that's for a scene or IFT..

 I am sure if I rush and forget to Latch something or make the crew feel rushed , I would still hear about it weeks later.

Just remember we are not as important as we think we are,., and move on. No one will care how slow or fast you are even if you think they do.

the crew brief is a complete waste of time since they serve no function in the operation of the aircraft. I quit doing them years ago. I am also of the opinion pouring yourself a cup of coffee and having some bullsh*t crew brief with a flight pending shows contempt for the job. I am also of the opinion this thread isn't even about EMS since I never had a patient flight yet that was scheduled the day before so who gives a sh*t if you like to scratch your balls for a half hour.

you are correct , I have been scratching my balls for a long time. I also agree if you don't want to do  Crew Breifs that's  good for you too.. there are many ways to get the job done. I still have no complaints and neither does my company or my crews. I like it like that ... just like the song .. lol

There is no way in h@ck I'd fly anything I hadn't preflighted, reviewed the maintenance log.

That's how I got to be an old pilot- take no unnecessary chances. Did someone leave the cap off the tranny oil filler....?

yeah, always double check your tranny cap

key phrase "crew rest". Think about it.

Each assignment under paragraph (b) of this section must provide for at least 10 consecutive hours of rest during the 24-hour period that precedes the planned completion time of the assignment.

be bring up crew rest if was 91 you dumb d*ck

thoughts lol

You're quibbling over nomenclature to find a loophole around any common sense rest requirements. I'll bet you're practicing how to wink. It will come in handy on those bad weather days.

In this thread, "crew rest" is a generic term meant to describe any rest requirements under any part.

it's pretty obvious you don't even understand the question with that answer lol

use of locomotive horns. it's all clear now. lol

Interpreted like you are doing. I sat on ground hold for 3 hours trying to launch on a last leg. That would have put us way past 14. Probably more like 16 hours or more of crew day to complete last 135 leg. No way will the FAA give that a pass if there was and accident/incident.

Here is the Notice of Proposed Interpretation to assess the duty day impact on a leg by leg basis, like they do in Part 121:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/12/23/2010-32234/interpretation-of-rest-requirements

And, here is where they withdrew it:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/11/07/2013-26485/interpretation-of-rest-requirements

The current interpretation is that if your origional planning is reasonable for the entire assignment, and that assignment is delayed for circumstances beyond the control of the certificate holder, the assignment my continue beyond the FAR 135.267 duty day restrictions.   IOWs, If you are good to start the assignment, you are good to finish the assgnment.   

It was true in the Part 121 world also, until the Whitlow letter discussed in the Notice of Proposed Interpretation here, but it was decided, for Part 135 operations, not to use the same standard.

Flight delays. Once you get on the ground you have to reset the clock. Are you going to say it's okay to have a 15 hour ground delay? 

135.263(d) A flight crewmember is not considered to be assigned flight time in excess of flight time limitations if the flights to which he is assigned normally terminate within the limitations, 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.

135,267(d) Each assignment under paragraph (b) of this section must provide for at least 10 consecutive hours of rest during the 24-hour period that precedes the planned completion time of the assignment.

If you are assigned 3 flight legs, your assignment is the whole package.  And, if you were good to start the flight assignment, you are OK to finish the assignment, even if it exceeds the 10 hrs rest in 24 hour look-back from the completion of the ASSIGNMENT.   It is not a leg-by-leg assessment as was established by the Whitlow intepretation under Part 121.   The FAA was going to try and make it a leg-by-leg assessment, as the Notice of Proposed Interpretation indicated, but they withdrew it, letting it fall back to what it was, which was by assignment (not leg-by-leg).

day not ending it you dumb di*k

two part question.  The first part was about ending the day!

rest requirements. Let's see...pilots and flight attendants both have required rest. Not sure who else is left on board that you could be talking about. If you haven't figured out this is 135 yet, maybe I could draw you a picture.

and reckless,

like insisting life preservers are not required for overwater flight beyond autorotation or SE capability.

that whole crew rest thing.

you can get there earlier to accomplish all those things he was asking about?

Ever sit on a commercial airplane waiting for a pilot to show up?  Passengers boarded, flight attendants boarded, copilot boarded, just waiting for the Captain?   Then, just after he gets there, cabin door shuts, and you are being pushed back from the gate?

He is talking about minimum rest. That is 10 hours. He is talking about a 14 hour day the previous day. Then 10 hours rest to show at regularly scheduled show time, that the base has designated that time. You can't legally show up early in that scenario.

But, now we are talking about a precise premise, which wasn't mentioned in the question itself:  Exactly 10 hrs after he previously dutied off.

no, I have never been on a plane that back from the gate immediately after either one of the flight crew arrived.

probably take a 100 flights a year. never seen it once. The FO cannot do the checklists by himself.

Your 10 hours of rest is required.  No activities for flight duties:  preflight, weather checks, etc. are allowed until 10 hours of rest.  So be a professional and follow the regs.

Previous employer Part 135 charter/tours in NYC, we had it in our GOM that you needed to have at least 30 minutes prior to skids up from duty in for preflight duties and at the end you have to land with 15 minutes before you duty out for post flight paperwork.  The 10 hours was factored in.  Guy has a tripped scheduled for a 0900 pickup from JRB? Ok he needs to land at 0850, taking off 0845, starting aircraft at 0840, they would give a 0800 start time and make sure the pilot was sent home to begin his rest no later than 2200 the night before.  

This is an example of an enlightened process that demonstrates both clear thinking and a concern for safety.