Saturday, July 30, 2011

Fatigue and pilots

Are they too tired to fly?

Amplify’d from www.altmeds.com

Fatigue in airline pilots sparks new rules

Pilot fatigue has been on the National Transportation Safety Board's list of "most wanted safety fixes" since 1990. This year, something might finally be done to address it.

The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Randolph Babbitt, himself a retired pilot, this week said he would expedite the establishment of new rules to guide how many hours pilots can fly each day and each month.

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