Originally Posted by BeatNavy

Well yeah, and I did, but it made/makes for an awkward cockpit climate (and degradation of CRM if you want to go there) after laying down the law with a captain. It is supposed to be the Captain making the safe and prudent decisions and not being overridden by a subordinate. It’s unsat when almost all my captains get plssed when I ask them to write stuff up. Then they try to pressure me to accept doing it later. I know for a fact it happens all the time. I’ve talked to friends and captains about it. No way are the small writeups I find not found by others. They are just overlooked because they are minor. The union (and company and FAA) has said it is a legal requirement to write it up, no matter how small. Why a CA would try to pressure FOs to accept anything less is beyond me, in (or not in) a labor dispute. As for the extension...I wasn’t fatigued. That’s not the point. Extensions aren’t fatigue calls. They are purely optional regardless of fatigue level. No fatigue is required. So he could have consulted me and known that I didn’t want to extend.