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Old 17th Jun 2019, 09:26
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Ollie Onion
 
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The 1500 hour rule is a joke. Go back and read the Coglan accident report that led to this new rule. By far the biggest contributor to this accident was the Fatigue the crew were experiencing, the Captain had a questionable training record but lots of hours, the FO had loads of hours. Both were tired, yawning down the approach due to having to deadhead into work, sleep on the Crewroom couch as they couldn’t afford to live in their base city. A far better response to this incident would have been better flight time limitations and a mandated minimum award for airline pilots including needing to be paid enough to live locally. Sure it would put pressure on costs and airfares but we have allowed the workers to suffer in a never ending quest to reduce costs. The easy option out was to put this arbitrary hour limit in place that has no perceivable safety benefit as you still get pilots with a bad training record in the left and right seat with thousands of hours.
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