Captain Stable
Safety ModBod
posted 31st March 2005 10:03
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“Personal opinion here...I would also like the issue of pilots flying fatigued to be similarly addressed. Most of the evidence points to fatigue being a far more urgent and prevalent problem than alcohol.”
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Couldn’t agree more. Hans Selye, the originator of the stress concept, said, “More harm has been done in society by intoxication by stress, than that of the alcoholic kind.” Fatigue is a stressor that opens the person up to further effects of stress, including coronary heart disease. How safe is that?
Who should address this Captain Stable? – the airlines? The Regulator(s)? JAA? But since when did they take the scientific evidence seriously?
