Small Transport; Low Wing; 2 Recip Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Fatigue
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Runway
Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Company Policy; Human Factors
I was flying my last leg of the day. Traffic was landing Runway XX and departing XY. I was on Taxiway Charlie and was asked if I could accept an intersection departure on XZ from Charlie. My performance data allowed for this departure and would not have violated any of the requirements for intersection departures. I told them I could accept. I was told to taxi into position and hold. Unfortunately; I was confused and saw traffic landing Runway XX and accidentally lined up facing XA [the wrong way on XZ]. The Tower cleared me for departure and then immediately said 'stop; you are lined up the wrong way; make a 180 on XA to face XZ.' I never advanced the throttles for takeoff; but did see my error. I then turned around on XZ and was cleared for takeoff. After departure I thanked the controller for his diligence and catching my mistake. He then said not to worry and that's why we're all here.All of my ASAP reports have one common problem that draws a line through every mistake I've made; fatigue. Every incident has happened on either the last flight of a 13 hour duty day or the last flight of my week. It is my personal opinion that 13 hour duty days are simply too long. In this example the duty day was 14 hours. I fully understand that some guys like working those long days and that's good for them; but unless you're willing to work a 13 hour day; you cannot work at this company. I can't understand why some schedules couldn't be built for 10 hour days. I know the response is to call out fatigued if you're getting too tired; but I say why must I be constantly put in a position to fail; and call out fatigued? Is there no responsibility of the company to give their employees schedules to help them succeed? I don't want to have to call out fatigued; although I have in the past. I feel a responsibility to my passengers and there is a lot of pressure to fulfill the day when they're standing there expecting you to fly them somewhere and you're too tired. Furthermore; although the company itself would never pressure me into flying beyond my capabilities there is still a culture of push through among the pilots. Again I feel that there should be shorter schedules offered to pilots who don't want to work 13 hour days and I feel that the company should take more responsibility than just saying 'call out if you're too tired'.
C402 pilot reported fatigue was a factor in a departure runway incursion.