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title: "Flight duty period ('FDP') — EASA Definition · Avioverse"
description: "ORO.FTL.105, Regulation (EU) No 965/2012: ‘flight duty period ('FDP')’ means a period that commences when a crew member is required to report for duty…"
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# flight duty period ('FDP')

EASA defines “flight duty period ('FDP')” in one regulation. The wording below is reproduced verbatim from the EASA Easy Access Rules, with a link to the paragraph it comes from.

> ‘flight duty period ('FDP')’ means a period that commences when a crew member is required to report for duty, which includes a sector or a series of sectors, and finishes when the aircraft finally comes to rest and the engines are shut down, at the end of the last sector on which the crew member acts as an operating crew member;

ORO.FTL.105 · Air Operations · Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · Easy Access Rules, 27 Mar 2026 revision · [Read ORO.FTL.105](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/air-ops/part-oro/subpart-ftl#oro-ftl-105)

## Defined in the same article

- [acclimatised](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/acclimatised)
- [accommodation](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/accommodation)
- [airport standby](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/airport-standby)
- [augmented flight crew](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/augmented-flight-crew)
- [break](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/break)
- [delayed reporting](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/delayed-reporting)
- [disruptive schedule](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/disruptive-schedule)
- [duty](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/duty)