Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
If the story went like you said,
1) that pilot violated FAR 117 and needs to talk to ALPA, idk if ASAP would cover him/her.
2) ALPA needs to get on this and get the FAA involved.
§117.5 Fitness for duty.
(a) Each flightcrew member must report for any flight duty period rested and prepared to perform his or her assigned duties.
(b) No certificate holder may assign and no flightcrew member may accept assignment to a flight duty period if the flightcrew member has reported for a flight duty period too fatigued to safely perform his or her assigned duties.
(c) No certificate holder may permit a flightcrew member to continue a flight duty period if the flightcrew member has reported him or herself too fatigued to continue the assigned flight duty period.
(d) As part of the dispatch or flight release, as applicable, each flightcrew member must affirmatively state he or she is fit for duty prior to commencing flight.
As was said above, the company absolutely will let you call in fatigued prior to report. What they currently won’t do is accept a call more than 10 hours from report. Which is kind of dumb, but I also don’t see what the big deal is. You’d think they want as much lead time as possible to cover the flights but I guess they don’t care. So just wait until you’re within 10 hours of report to call.