---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 117.5"
title: "14"
number: "117.5"
heading: "Fitness for duty."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/117.5"
---

# §117.5. Fitness for duty.

- (a) Each flightcrew member must report for any flight duty period rested and prepared to perform his or her assigned duties.
- (b) No certificate holder may assign and no flightcrew member may accept assignment to a flight duty period if the flightcrew member has reported for a flight duty period too fatigued to safely perform his or her assigned duties.
- (c) No certificate holder may permit a flightcrew member to continue a flight duty period if the flightcrew member has reported him or herself too fatigued to continue the assigned flight duty period.
- (d) As part of the dispatch or flight release, as applicable, each flightcrew member must affirmatively state he or she is fit for duty prior to commencing flight.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 40119, 44101, 44701-44702, 44705, 44709-44711, 44713, 44716-44717, 44722, 46901, 44903-44904, 44912, 46105.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2009-1093, 77 FR 398, Jan. 4, 2012, unless otherwise noted.