And Casa's answer to the thorny problem of Duty Hours is an FMS. There is no such thing as duty hours in an FMS...just 'work' and 'non work'...but I guess it absolves CASA from one more regulatory oversight process that steadily increasing budge cuts from Govt make impossible anway!
But when you ring up the boss before a hugely long period of work starting at 0700LT after a nights 'non work' interrupted by your sick toddler, construction work outside the hotel or simply the fact that you couldn't get to sleep after sleeping most of the day away the day before because you were shattered after a very long period of 'work', and tell him you are unfit for duty and he explodes down the phone at you....well you can take comfort from the fact that instead of doing 11 hours of duty (which in your present state you might just sqeeze through) you could be out there for 16 or 20...man as long as you fatigue score doesn't hit 80 odd who givsa fark?
The Howard Viels of this world don't!
And you know why? Because when you fark up and die taking a bunch of punters with you fatigue won't even make it to the report...hell you had a good nights sleep...didn't you? Hell you just had 36 hours of 'non work' since your last body clock shattering period of 'work'...and of course your kids are trained to creep around the house and not wake up Daddy, your apartment/house is hermetically sealed to ensure you can sleep when your body clock says "WAKE UP SUCKER!", you haven't had to race out and pay bills/go to the dentist...ohh and that game of rugger you enjoy playing on your one day off...you know that period of intense cardio excercise which is good for you...well forget it because that's 'work'!
What the 'professionals' at U of SA failed to allow for was 'life'. Life can be lived in its, almost, normal fashion under 48 and it's derivatives...under a Fatigue Management System that's not the case...it doesn't have the buffers for real life...only the ones you get in a University Classroom.
Chuck.