Originally Posted by
tennisguru
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.
agreed. I guess the logic there is you have a full FAR legal rest period before report to get rest. But like you said, just call back later.
if it was inside 10 hours to report, the pilot called fatigued and then proceeded to report for duty… that would be what I was talking about.