It wouldn't be the first time that an airline pushes its engineers or pilots to operate outside the regulation to cut corners only to point the fingers at them whenever investigators start gathering around the flaming wreck...
Spot on... We get paid to make decisions. Nobody will ever hand you a metal for the good ones, but they will sure hang you up when you $%^# up. Furthermore, we are forced to ride a fine line between pleasing the company, and complying with the law. As a pilot, you have a legal obligation to be fit prior to commencing a duty. The company on the other hand has a history of terminating pilots at their discretion based on sickness records. Meanwhile our perceived "value" continues to plummet.
