Originally Posted by Herkflyr

It's also perfectly legal for a non-commuter to be up half the night with a crying infant, have an 0600 report, meaning he or she is waking up at 4 (not even including said crying baby), get stuck on I-285 after a tractor trailer jackknifes, and then fly a long duty day, with a few swigs of coffee to keep them going.

We can always find statistical outliers. At some point we have to be able to grant a pilot the benefit of the doubt regarding their own rest state and fitness for duty.