I missed that part. What reg did he break?
I'm guessing he meant flying fatigued would be a known impairment/deficiency.
FlyChicaga, I'm not saying we need to lie to the public about the legitimate problems with the duty regs. By all means people should know that our rest starts 15min from engine shutdown regardless of how long it takes to get to the hotel room, etc., etc. My point was that if we as pilots are saying that the current duty regs are causing
safety to be compromised because they don't allow adequate rest, then how reckless and inexcusable is it to willfully compromise safety by flying fatigued because you wanted to go to the lake? Is a day at the lake more important than safety, or are we just taking advantage of the current media attention to try to improve our contracts?
I'm not saying the regs don't need to be updated, and I'm not
necessarily saying that the person who spent the day at the lake is unprofessional or unsafe. I'm not even disagreeing with you about high-speeds running you down after a while, I'm just saying that we have to be consistent: If fatigue is the
urgent safety issue we're all saying that it is, we'd better make sure we're at least doing everything in our own power to not fly fatigued. Agree?
And yes, I've commuted to 2 straight months of high-speeds, and I've sat reserve flying a mix of high-speeds and day flying, been signed off reserve late morning to fly a high-speed that night, etc.