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Section 117.25
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 reserve availability period.
(d) For long call reserve, if a certificate holder contacts a flightcrew member 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 Section 117.25(e).

(2) An extension of the flight duty period under paragraph (b)(1) of this section of more than 30 minutes may
occur only once prior to receiving a
rest period described in Section 117.25(b).
(3) An extension taken under paragraph (b) of this section may exceed
the cumulative flight duty period limits specified in 117.23(c).
(4) Each certificate holder must report to the Administrator within 10
days any flight duty period that either
exceeded the cumulative flight duty
periods specified in Section 117.23(c), or exceeded 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 affected flight duty period.

Section 117.23 Cumulative limitations.
(a) The limitations of this section include all flying by flightcrew members
on behalf of any certificate holder or
91K Program Manager during the applicable periods.
(b) No certificate holder may schedule and no flightcrew member may accept 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.
(c) No certificate holder may schedule and no flightcrew member may accept an assignment if the flightcrew
member-s total Flight Duty Period will
exceed:
(1) 60 flight duty period hours in any
168 consecutive hours or
(2) 190 flight duty period hours in any
672 consecutive hours.

[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]

Section 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 definition 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 period, no certificate holder may schedule and no flightcrew member may accept an assignment of a reserve availability period unless the flightcrew
member receives the required rest in
Section 117.25(e).
(3) For an unaugmented operation,
the total number of hours a flightcrew
member may spend in a flight duty period and a reserve availability period
may not exceed the lesser of the maximum 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-

[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 69288, Nov. 19, 2013]

Section 117.25 Rest period.
(a) No certificate holder may assign
and no flightcrew member may accept
assignment to any reserve or duty with
the certificate holder during any required rest period.
(b) Before beginning any reserve or
flight duty period a flightcrew member
must be given at least 30 consecutive
hours free from all duty within the
past 168 consecutive hour period.

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