Originally Posted by
chignutsak
Your compensation and the days necessary to achieve it are not, and never will be, an FAA concern. In my experience, the benefits to 117 are mid sequence, and at the end of sequences, where I was frequently treated to reduced rest.
No but ensuring that there is no pressure to fly fatigued most certainly is. And as long as pilot s may not get paid for fatigue calls then there WILL be pressure. A first year regional FO cannot afford a fatigue call.
If the FAA actually cared about pilot fatigue they would do something about this. As it is, they care about liability and have designed a perfect system where the liability is 100% on the pilots head.