Originally Posted by
kalymnos
....Chickens (or Rooster) in Bermuda, the chickens stopped this person from sleeping. Not being critical... just wanted to throw that out there.....
You also have no idea what his/her schedule was leading up to that night. As someone else pointed out, regardless of all the details (chickens possibly being one of many that he needed for a report as a catalyst for the event) if you are not fit to fly you should not fly.
In this environment, it is up to the individual to tap out when necessary as schedulers will simply keep piling on the work that they have until you do (and this goes for every operation). We are not going to war and it is a life and death occupation only if you make it so. Flying fatigued is one way to do it.
If there is an inference of abuse of the system, I'd say that for every 1 pilot that takes advantage of an industry leading fatigue policy there are 9 that don't use it when they should.
I second the vote for useless thread of the week.