Tail Drag:
I flew for one of the east coast airlines that participated in the study. While I started there some 20 years after the study, older pilots still talked about it.
You have all the ideas right.
I hope you will send the details if you find them to me at:
[email protected]
or post them here for us all
regards
jon
PS: I do think credit for takeoff/landing cycles should be part of any change in flight time regs. while cruising for 5 hours is all well and good, the work is landing (though it does wake u up a bit).
IF JETBLUE wanted its pilots to be home in their own bed each night, they would create a pilot rest area aboard their planes and use an augmented crew and do it like the intercontinental range airlines do.
What jet blue wanted was to save money.
A pilot can respond to all sorts of tests, but it is the last minute of the flight in which the most danger presents itself and when fatigue will creep into your eyes.