Ek Pilots required to sleep in 75 Decibels

[Instant Hooligan]

It's official the EK pilots can read the report shortly, but the long and short is that no affects were found on a pilots ability to rest when the AVERAGE cabin noise levels were 75 decibels and peak noise levels were measured at 97 decibels.
Noise and Hearing Loss (http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/disorders/noise.htm)
FYI

[dustyprops]

Oh well, what a relief eh? At least we don't have to write those ASR's anymore because it's safe! Thank goodness, I am totally at ease now, phew! The only slight concern is that the noise that keeps me awake, whilst in the CRC, must be in my F@#*ing head!!!!!


EK management - AMATEURS.....what a complete joke.

Keep it safe boys, yeah right. Safety is obviously the number one concern at EK. NOT!!!!!!!!!

[GMDS]

Some years ago, at a renowned airline, an angry pilot taped the noise in his hotel room, where he was required to rest through daytime. It had been criticised heavily, but deemed safe and adequate by the company. He then took his ghetto blaster and placed it in front of the office of the SVP FO during a meeting and played back the noise. Needless to mention that the managers came blasting out after a few minutes asking what freakin' noise this was, that they could not concentrate for their serious meeting, let alone take a peacful coffee during their short break to recover.

It's all a matter of arrogant perception.

[Fart Master]

Arrogant perception.... I like that one, that's a very good way of suming up the morons

[Bring Back The Biff]

Sorry to put a damper on the post - but the average noise level in the CRC was measured at 61dBa while the cabin noise levels were 75dBa and peaking at 97dBa.

Not that this necessarily makes any difference to the ability to rest with continuous and irritating peaks like babies crying, doors banging etc.

Also, wonder which 46 pilots were selected for the study, given that management don't trust normal line pilots to provide honest results. Do you have 46 management pilots, or was it the same 4 over and over?!!

(Mind you, that would be an awful lot of flying by management types and there would have been a spike in the ASR's...)

[pool]

Do you honestly believe there were 46 pilots involved in that "study"?
There were maybe the 3 stooges but not more.

What would Biff have done about such naivety?
2 knocks on the head and "Hello-oh!! Someone there?"

[puff m'call]

I see the ASR'S regarding the subject are drying up, let's hope the 380 guys aren't just excepting it.

[RMC]

All the best to my ex BA Connect / BRAL buddies out there .... another reunion due soon methinks . On topic after my pilots free flight Atlas "best bang for the buck" in my aviation career.... perfect for stop overs in daylight as well as on the aircraft or at home next to the snoring wife. Its a patented product which has double noise reduction (34 dBs on the plugs plus unspecified reduction on the covers/ plug retainers) . The mask cuts out light better than any mask I've ever used. They imply you can reuse it for life ...the reality is I have used mine almost every work day/ night for almost six months and continuously wiping it down eventually meant I had to buy another. Also the ear plugs dont even last that long but you can buy them separately for peanuts.

The only place I can find that sells it (presumably the patent holder) is on ebay UK item number 320998848140 although I belive it is also sold in the US. In terms of its cost to produce it is top quality but still expensive for what it is... but uninterrupted sleep is priceless for a light sleeper like me.

Layden Fritz get in touch!

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