OM-A 7.1.4. FTL - Definitions

Question 1

What is the definition of contactable?

Answer 1

• short period of time during the day (between 06:00 and 22:00 local)
• other than a day off
• crew member is to be contactable for purpose of receiving a message from easyJet.
• Allocation of duty periods during a Contactable Period require minimum 10 hours notice.
• No longer than on hour.
• Does not count towards cumulative duty hours.

Question 2

What is the definition of Days Off?

Answer 2

• Single Day off shall include 2 local nights.
• Consecutive days off shall include further local night for each consecutive day off.
• A rest period may be included as part of a day off.

Question 3

What is the definition of a Duty?

Answer 3

Any CONTINUOUS period during which a crew member is required to carry out any task associated with easyJet business?

Question 4

What is the definition of an ‘Early Start Duty.’

Answer 4

• if it commences in the period 05:00 to 06:59 local.
• a SBY commencing in the period 03:00 to 06:59 local is considered to be an early duty.
• except when a call out results in undertaking a duty in the Night Duty Definition.

Question 5

What is the definition of Flight Time?

Answer 5

Time between:

• Aircraft first moves under its own power
• until it first comes to rest, after being airborne, on the designated parking position.

Question 6

What is the definition of Flight Duty Period (FDP)?

Answer 6

Any time during which a person operates an aircraft as a member of its crew.

Starts: Report time
Ends: On-chocks time of final sector.

Question 7

What is the definition of a Late Finish Duty?

Answer 7

When it ends in the period 01:00 to 01:59 local.

Question 8

What is the definition of a Local Night?

Answer 8

A period of 8 hours falling between 22:00 to 08:00 hours local.

Question 9

What is the definition of a Night Duty?

Answer 9

A duty is a night duty if any part of it falls in the period 02:00 to 04:59 local time.

Question 10

What is the definition of a Rest Period?

Answer 10

A period of time before starting an FDP which is designated to give crew members adequate opportunity to rest before a flight.

Question 11

What is the definition of a Rostering Period?

Answer 11

4 consecutive weeks.

Question 12

What is the definition of a Sector?

Answer 12

Any period between:

• aircraft first moving under its own power, until;
• it next comes to rest, after being airborne, on the designated parking position.

Question 13

What is the definition of a Split Duty?

Answer 13

• An FDP
• consists of 2 sectors or more
• separated by less than a minimum rest period.

Question 14

What is the definition of a Standby Duty?

Answer 14

A period during which easyJet places restraints on a crew member who would otherwise be off duty.

• allocation of duty periods do not require 10 hours notice.
• EasyJet may pass messages to a crew member on SBY.

Question 15

What is the definition of Suitable Accomodation?

Answer 15

• Well furnished bedroom
• subject to minimum noise
• well ventilated
• facility to control levels of light
• facility to control levels of temperature.

Question 16

What is the definition of a Time Assignable Day?

Answer 16

• A period of 24 hours commencing at 00:01 local
• Not a day off
• Not a leave day
• Does not have a SBY, ground or flying duty rostered.

A crew member may be notified of a duty to be performed on a Time Assignable Day:

• at any time up to the end of the preceding duty period or contactable period
• subject to achievement of minimum rest, etc.

Question 17

What is the definition of Travelling?

Answer 17

All time spent by a crew member transiting between, place of rest and place of reporting for duty.

Question 18

What is the definition of a week?

Answer 18

A period of seven consecutive days starting at 00:01 UTC on Mondays.

Question 19

What is the definition of Article 146 of the Air Navigation Order.

Answer 19

A person shall not act as a crew member if they know or suspect that their

• physical or mental condition
• renders them unfit to operate
• to the extent that it would endanger the safety of the aircraft or its occupants.

Question 20

What is the definition of a mixed duty?

Answer 20

• Crew member required to report for duty in advance of the stipulated report time
• for a scheduled flight
• to carry out a task at the behest of easyJet
• time spent on the task shall be part of the subsequent FDP.

Question 21

What is the definition of Acclimatised?

Answer 21

Crew member has spent:

• 3 consecutive Local Nights
• On the ground
• within a time zone which is 2 hours wide
• able to take uninterrupted nights sleep

Crew member remains acclimatised until duty period finishes at a place where local time differs by more than 2 hours.