Engineers Duty Hours
Over the last few weeks I have done a number of flights where it was necessary for us to take along some engineers. I have been horrified at the duty hours these guys have to do. They go to the aircraft before us, fly on the flight, do the turn round while we get of and go to the hotel and a new flight crew takes over, and then they fly all the way back again, and sort out any defects before getting to a proper hotel and a proper bed!
This cannot be right or safe. Is it about time that the engineers flying with an aircraft had to comply with aircrew duty limitations at least that of cabin crew?