Anything done at the behest of the company is to be included as duty time. If you require your crews to do anything, time must be allocated for it.
What you may not under any circumstances do is require them to do something outside duty hours. To threaten them with disciplinary action if they do not consent to break the law is quite astounding.
Whichever cerbrally-challenged manager instituted this illegal (and dangerous) practice does not deserve to hold a position of responsibility within an airline. He or she clearly does not understand even the basics of an FTL scheme.
This situation must be brought to the notice of the CAA via CHIRP very rapidly indeed.
Last edited by Captain Stable; 22nd August 2002 at 00:27.