Tired Pilots Are Falling Asleep At The Controls
British pilots warned members of Parliament Tuesday that if proposals to increase pilot flying time are approved, it will be a danger to public safety, report our colleagues at HuffPost UK.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) wants to standardize pilot workloads across its 27 member states.
The EU proposals would increase pilot work time from 16 hours 15 minutes a day to 20 hours, according to The Telegraph. When transportation time is factored in, that could result in a 22-hour work day. When we last addressed this story, the EU was debating only increasing pilot duty to 13 hours.
Nearly half of pilots say they have fallen asleep at the controls, it emerged yesterday.
The alarming admission came as union leaders warned MPs that even more passengers’ lives will be put at risk due to new European rules that could allow pilots to land their aircraft after 22 hours without sleep.
The change – to ‘harmonise’ flying hours – poses ‘a danger to public safety’ and must not be adopted by the UK, the British Airline Pilots’ Association warned the House of Commons Transport Committee yesterday.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104794/Nearly-HALF-pilots-admitted-fallen-asleep-controls.html#ixzz1nhCTDKOT
Nearly half of pilots say they have fallen asleep at the controls, it emerged yesterday.
The alarming admission came as union leaders warned MPs that even more passengers’ lives will be put at risk due to new European rules that could allow pilots to land their aircraft after 22 hours without sleep.
The change – to ‘harmonise’ flying hours – poses ‘a danger to public safety’ and must not be adopted by the UK, the British Airline Pilots’ Association warned the House of Commons Transport Committee yesterday.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104794/Nearly-HALF-pilots-admitted-fallen-asleep-controls.html#ixzz1nhCTDKOT
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