Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Pilots are the ones who routinely have to get "measured" via 2 FAA physicals per year. You have many older Americans who don't go to the doctor or get screened ever until they get sick. For example, you want to measure colon cancer rates among people who regularly get colonoscopy vs. those who never get screened, and you'll get substantially different results.



This. At my old gig, the "controlled rest" were regulated and spelled out in the manual. If I remember correctly, it was no more than 45 minutes of actual nap, followed by 15 minutes for you to fully wake up, and not within an hour of landing. Using controlled rest procedures to augment or add additional duty time was expressly prohibited by regulation.



At my old operation, our duty limits were strictly based on being acclimated vs. non-acclimated and whether or not we were augmented. Using controlled rest to avoid being augmented was expressly prohibited in the FOM.