Good To Go?

Fatigue Risk Management Systems aim to better address the issue of pilot fatigue

To be honest, I was tired all of the time, not incapacitated type of tired, but just tired. I was in a pattern of sleeping for only four hours at a time, wake up for an hour or two, then back to sleep for a few more hours. The problem was the time zones and duty cycles. ” These words of a former US-based 747 captain are sobering and finally the focus of major industry initiatives.

Pilot duty time has long been regulated, but often without taking into account major time zones shifts and sleep patterns, not to mention the much faster pace of the airline industry today thanks to the low-cost carrier boom.