CS
The document you refer to.
http://www.casa.gov.au/avreg/fsa/dow...r/apr_fati.pdf
http://cf.alpa.org/internet/projects...ment_1997.html
Other good stuff.
http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/zteam/
http://cf.alpa.org/internet/projects/ftdt/
CASA are currently carrying out a 3 year research programme
into pilot fatigue.
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Equating the two rates at which performance declined (percentage decline per hour of wakefulness and percentage decline with change in blood alcohol concentration), we calculated that the performance decrement for each hour of wakefulness between 10 and 26 hours was equivalent to the performance decrement observed with a 0.004% rise in blood alcohol concentration. Therefore, after 17 hours of sustained wakefulness (3:00) cognitive psychomotor performance decreased to a level equivalent to the performance impairment observed at a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05%. This is the proscribed level of alcohol intoxication in many western industrialized countries. After 24 hours of sustained wakefulness (8:00) cognitive psychomotor performance decreased to a level equivalent to the performance deficit observed at a blood alcohol concentration of roughly 0.10%.
So whilst any airline would rightly dismiss any pilot violating alcohol regulations, would they pay any heed to studies like this?
There are far more tired pilots than drunk pilots out there, right now, as you read this.
So are airlines prepared to take aircrew fatigue seriously? As seriously as they take alcohol consumption?