Originally Posted by
DWC CAP10 USAF
Why?!?!
It was an illegal assignment.
Once you made yourself aware of your schedule you would have seen the assignment and you would not have the FAR minimum rest so not only would it be a PWA violation, it would be an FAR violation.
You could have sat at home and someone would have got a GS to cover the trip short notice.
It's my personal opinion that more pilots need to push back and make the company follow the PWA instead of just having the "I'll get paid" mentality. It reinforces to the company that we are OK with them wiping their arse with our contract as long as they throw a little extra cheddar our way.
While I get the sentiment and in many ways share it, the trip in question was put on my schedule several days in advance and I made the mistake of giving them a courtesy call to remove it. When they refused, they also marked me notified.
Since I’d been notified of the trip and the accompanying pre FDP rest there was no FAR violation, just as there’s no FAR violation for yellow slipping a trip before 1000 on day 1. So this wasn’t a choice of “fly it for cash or stay home” it was a choice between flying it or possible disciplinary action for no-showing a trip I’d been marked notified for.
Granted I could’ve just not given them a courtesy call and just no-showed and eventually been vindicated but hindsight’s always 20-20.