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Original Message Commuting is you driving yourself from where you live to your workplace. Deadheading is you travelling for the company to a place where they need you, from your home or domicile.
A relief pilot/pool pilot is not driving himself to work, he is travelling for the company. He is home based. They need him/her somewhere and assign it to him/her and provide the travel, be it POV/commercial transportation. That pilot is working for the company for that transportation and thus on duty. That duty counts towards his rest limitations. A commuter's time spent to/from work is of the pilot's own doing. That is not duty!
So, a relief pilot travelling to a base starts his duty time when he leaves the home to travel to the work assignment. That's duty time. That duty time ends when s/he is back home, or in a hotel/adequate rest facility. A pilot needs to have 10 hrs of rest in the last 24 hours looking back from when a planned PART 135 flight lands. The deadhead time in front of the day's "shift" is part of that lookback! |