“We have robust processes to ensure all the legal limits on flying time are met and we’d like to be clear that at no point was Captain Simkins expected to fly while fatigued.
Thomas Cook’s own fatigue monitoring software showed that because of the run of duties he had done, if he had flown his rostered flight he would have landed at the end of his duty with a predicted performance loss that would have been similar to being four times over the legal alcohol limit for flying,
I find these 2 statements are contradictory. Note the use of 'legal limits'. It has been said by CAA's, but not enforced, that FTL limits are not expected to be used as the norm on a regular basis. Duh! Nieve.
In mitigation, would crewing put these rosters through the FRMS program on the relevant day, or do they rely that rostering has done that?