Are Ryanair pilots falsely logging flight duty times at STN?
I would like to know how Ryanair continues to get away with the incorrect, and illegal practice of falsly logging sign-on times for its pilots in Stansted.
The required sign-on time is 45 mins before ETD. But virtually all the F/O´s and many Captains turn up at least an hour before through necessity. Reason being as we all know, that one must contend with broken Computers, broken printers, printers without paper, missing plates, missing flight plans walking to the bravo apron....etc. I´m sure others of you can elaborate. However the 'early pilots' cannot reflect this arrival time on the Voyage Report and falsly report that they arrived 45 minutes before ETD. The cummulitive gains for Ryanair over the year are obvious and deliberate.
Ryanair know that the pilots are coming in early to avoid the obvious ramifications of a late departure due to flight crew. Why do the IAA, and CAA for that matter, allow this practice to happen?
SF