Originally Posted by
Old UCAL CA
Ahem...lived a pretty healthy lifestyle with a lot of nutritional and workout maintenance. Still do. Worked when healthy, called in sick when sick. Left with 1200+ hours.
Unless one is exceedingly unhealthy, there's no practical way of recovering the allocated time without risking a policy violation and possible termination.
If it is a big issue to enough pilots, you guys need to trade the allocation for dollars, or extra time off as an optional contractual issue.
The chances of someone being fired for calling in sick is somewhere between zero and none. AMS is solely to pick off the low hanging fruit of those afraid of a phone call from the flight office.