LegacyDriver
Moving Target
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I am stupid to wade into this but.............
I remember as an F/O we were four minutes short of mandatory comp rest due to weather diversions... Captain called fatigued. Scheduling argued with her to the end of the Earth so I called. I managed to get threatened with discipline etc. for calling in tired. Got about 30 mins extra rest out of them (which wasn't enough). Told them to pull the tape and give it to the director of screw scheduling... He called and said he listened to the tape...
"When you said the word 'fatigue' that should have been the end of it. Still, I don't know what the big deal is. It was an empty repo leg."
It was a live leg with 40+ in back and we were flat out dangerous. Stupid mistakes we would never have made with rest got us left and right. Thank goodness we kept catching each other or it mighta' been bad.
I guess if we had drilled the airplane into the ground with just the crew nobody would have cared.
Needless to say I will never do something like that again.
Crew rest is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about, ESPECIALLY at the Regionals.
I remember as an F/O we were four minutes short of mandatory comp rest due to weather diversions... Captain called fatigued. Scheduling argued with her to the end of the Earth so I called. I managed to get threatened with discipline etc. for calling in tired. Got about 30 mins extra rest out of them (which wasn't enough). Told them to pull the tape and give it to the director of screw scheduling... He called and said he listened to the tape...
"When you said the word 'fatigue' that should have been the end of it. Still, I don't know what the big deal is. It was an empty repo leg."
It was a live leg with 40+ in back and we were flat out dangerous. Stupid mistakes we would never have made with rest got us left and right. Thank goodness we kept catching each other or it mighta' been bad.
I guess if we had drilled the airplane into the ground with just the crew nobody would have cared.
Needless to say I will never do something like that again.
Crew rest is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about, ESPECIALLY at the Regionals.