Narrative:

[This is] another example of unsafe scheduling by this company. On the last two days of a five day trip I had flown 14.5 hours with seven hours of sleep on reduced rest. At the completion of this trip; the company put me on reserve for four more hours until 15:15 pm base local time. I am a pm reserve captain and my report times for the last three days of the trip were: 0600; 0540; and 0315 (after reduced rest). All times are base local. I flew 14.5 hours with nearly 23 hours of duty the last two days on seven hours of sleep. On top of all that; crew scheduling then had me sitting reserve until 15:15 on my last day to get the last possible drop of blood out of me. This is insane. Fortunately the chief pilot agreed with me and called scheduling to have me released from my reserve or I would have had to call in fatigued again. This is the third time in three months that the company has put me in a position to fly without sufficient rest ( you tell me who could get up at two in the morning (base time) after six and one half hours of sleep; show at 3:15 and then fly for six and one half hours and be 100%). If the scheduling practices are not changed I am ready to contact the FAA certificate management office for an in depth interview about the scheduling practices at this company. I have plenty of documentation going back years. When is it going to stop? When somebody dies? This is ridiculous.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Regional Jet Captain standing PM reserve reported being assigned an AM trip sequence with increasingly early show times and minimum rest; causing extreme fatigue. The Captain was assigned further reserve time upon base arrival at trip end extending to the limit of his duty day.

Narrative: [This is] another example of unsafe scheduling by this company. On the last two days of a five day trip I had flown 14.5 hours with seven hours of sleep on reduced rest. At the completion of this trip; the company put me on reserve for four more hours until 15:15 pm base local time. I am a PM reserve Captain and my report times for the last three days of the trip were: 0600; 0540; and 0315 (after reduced rest). All times are base local. I flew 14.5 hours with nearly 23 hours of duty the last two days on seven hours of sleep. On top of all that; Crew Scheduling then had me sitting reserve until 15:15 on my last day to get the last possible drop of blood out of me. This is insane. Fortunately the Chief Pilot agreed with me and called scheduling to have me released from my reserve or I would have had to call in fatigued AGAIN. This is the THIRD time in three months that the company has put me in a position to fly without sufficient rest ( you tell me who could get up at two in the morning (base time) after six and one half hours of sleep; show at 3:15 and then fly for six and one half hours and be 100%). If the scheduling practices are not changed I am ready to contact the FAA Certificate Management Office for an in depth interview about the scheduling practices at this company. I have plenty of documentation going back years. When is it going to stop? When somebody dies? This is ridiculous.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.