FAA Crew Rest restrictions

[Garner Miller]

Oh, I love this. This was in this week's AvWeb News e-mail
(http://www.avweb.com/) I just got:

CREW REST ENFORCED; CHARTERS TARGETED, TOO: The FAA has given the
airline industry until December 12 to comply with existing crew rest
rules or face the music in a crackdown apparently spurred by the June 1
crash of AA Flight 1420 in Little Rock, Ark. While airline pilots
may be pleased with the crackdown, NATA is not, claiming that Part 135
charter carriers are being lumped in with the airlines, and that the
costs of compliance could force many out of business.

Incredbile... complying with Part 135 is going to put them out of
business? "It's OK, folks. Your pilot doesn't really need to get all
that sleep, because he's flying a complex piston twin all by himself."
<shudder>

--
Garner R. Miller, CFII/MEI
Pilot, US Airways Express, Portland, ME
http://www.netstreet.net/~garner/
Please don't e-mail me a copy of your usenet reply.

[Justin Maas]

My Father, James Maas, has spent years studying fatigue in the cockpit.
He once interviewed a 747 pilot who said "it wasn't unusual to fall asleep
in the cockpit and wake up to see the co-pilot and flight engineer sound
asleep also." My Father's, book "Power Sleep" has a chapter on such
stories. Anothering interesting one was a Piper Seneca owner who took off
from Mass. for a flight to Pensacola. After acheiving a direct course, the
pilot put the autopilot on - he awoke to the sound of fuel strarved engines
over the Gulf of Mexico. Luckily, since the pilot didn't correspond with
ATC, 4 coast guard vessels were following him(both air and sea).

Check out my Dad's book at www.amazon.com and search for "Power Sleep"
After all, due to getting proper sleep, my brother and I scored 1600's on
the SAT's last year(my freshman year).

--
Justin Maas
55.7 Hours Dual

[Matthew Whiting]

I'm sure proper sleep is all there was too it. :-)

[Justin Maas]

Well, think about it this way. The human brain REQUIRES at least nine
continuous hours of sleep to operate at "max power." The average American
gets 6.2 hours of sleep a night - we are basically operating on half a
brain...

--
Justin Maas

[Adrian Cybriwsky]

Justin Maas (Jm...@Clarityconnect.comNOSPAM) wrote:
: Well, think about it this way. The human brain REQUIRES at least nine

: continuous hours of sleep to operate at "max power." The average American
: gets 6.2 hours of sleep a night - we are basically operating on half a
: brain...

and to think you'd post some claptrap like this after bragging of your
1600 SAT :)

what's next, the old wives tale about only using 1/10th of the 'brain's
capacity?'

- adrian
has two cats. one sleeps 22+ hours / day, one 17+.

[Matthew Whiting]

Adrian Cybriwsky wrote:
>
> Justin Maas (Jm...@Clarityconnect.comNOSPAM) wrote:
> : Well, think about it this way. The human brain REQUIRES at least nine
> : continuous hours of sleep to operate at "max power." The average American
> : gets 6.2 hours of sleep a night - we are basically operating on half a
> : brain...
>
> and to think you'd post some claptrap like this after bragging of your
> 1600 SAT :)
>
> what's next, the old wives tale about only using 1/10th of the 'brain's
> capacity?'

Actually, it is 1/2 of 1/10! :-)

Matt (who only got 4 hours of sleep last night)

[FK27Bob]

>The FAA has given the
>airline industry until December 12 to comply with existing crew rest
>rules or face the music

My favorite part is "well you better do as we have been saying you should do
for the last 15 years....or you're gonna be in big, big trouble this time."
Duh, what a load of crud.

The FAA has also ruled years ago that on call pilots should have a
predetermined rest period, even if they have not been put on duty....they are
finally deciding that maybe now would be a good time to enforce this ruling.