Originally Posted by
Mesabah
How do you regulate a person's honesty? By using hard limits, that answers your question. The company is free to use a reserve pilot for 18 hours on reserve, they then throw the ball in the pilot's court whether he is fit for duty. Your answer to this problem, is to not sign the release, and file ASAP's. What does that accomplish, the company is well within its legal rights.
Again, do you expect the pilot not to sign the fit for duty statement when they are not below FDP limits or do you think they should sign it? Do you still sign it because the regulations say you are still legal, even if you are not legal per the regulation that says you shouldn't be signing the fit for duty statement?
Just because the reserve limits aren't where they should be, doesn't let the pilot off the hook for signing the fit for duty statement when they are indeed not.