Commercial Fixed Wing
Fatigue; Time Pressure
Other Fatigue
General Work Refused
Company Policy; Human Factors
I had just completed a four day trip. The last two legs of the trip were all night flying. We departed from Hawaii at 1951 central time for a West Coast mainland airport; sat for approximately one hour; departed at 0227 central time and finally landed at my domicile at 0528. I then learned Crew Scheduling had placed a pairing in my line with a show time of 1512 for later that SAME day. This four day pairing began with a dead head to the East Coast followed by operating an international flight to the British Isles with no Relief Pilot. I finally got home around 0715 and was in bed by 0800. Unfortunately; my body is not a machine and I had a difficult time sleeping. In order to make a 1512 show time I would have to leave home by 1300. So I woke up around 1000 to unpack; wash; pack again; eat; etc. Around 1100 I realized that I was extremely fatigued and would not be safe to even drive to work; much less operate an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean on another red-eye. I notified Scheduling and they removed me from the trip.
An Air Carrier First Officer refused to fly a four day; red eye; Atlantic crossing flight sequence scheduled to begin the same afternoon of the day on which he had just arrived from a previous four day sequence; the last two flights of which consisted of a Hawaii/West Coast flight followed by an all nighter to his home domicile in the Central time zone.