Personal Flying and flight duty limitations

[PointyEngine]

In regard to 703/704 Flight Time limitations (e.g 60 in 7, etc), as I understand it this becomes restricting when your total flight time over the period reaches the limit (combination of personal and commercial flying). So once this limit is reached, commercially you're finished, however I can still fly my cub privately until my heart’s content?

However, what about duty times? If I fly my own aircraft first thing in the morning, then fly commercially in the afternoon, when did my duty day start? Employing a small amount of common sense I would assume when I "reported for duty", i.e., start work (TC have odd ways of interpreting their own rules). Since the flight time in the private aircraft counts towards flight limitations, does it affect duty time? If personal flying did impact commercial duty times, flying privately on your days "free of duty" would do the same?

[traveller123]

If you fly a private registered aircraft you can fly 10 000 hours per year if you want... You're not working for a commecial ``operator``.

[switchflicker]

I think your flying in the morning in your own cub does not count towards the DUTY time of your employer but the flying time does.

Consider this though. If you flew your own cub for a few hours in the morning and then did a full duty day on your airliner ending it with a bang, the cub time would be in the spotlight for sure. The issue of being fatigued will never go away no matter how legal your times are. So is it a good idea? Maybe not.

Sw

[ahramin]

PointyEngine you've got it right. All time counts towards your flight time limits, but there is no flight time limit when flying private aircraft. The only thing that counts as duty time is what you work for your employer as specified in their ops manual.