Originally Posted by
joethepilot
Lets not make this into a ****ing contest. Yes... both are trying, but I think we will all agree the time between landing and the next takeoff is the more tiring and stressful than sitting in cruise chatting with your partner. Also its a well, medically, documented fact that the increased noise and vibration in a turboprop = more fatigue. Now with that being said, every regional pilot is exposed to fatigue on a regular basis, no matter what you fly.
Well if it's the time between flights that's tiring and stressful, I guess I can consider myself lucky that we do mostly 10 minute turns. It's so joyous figuring out performance and routing out of an airport while you're still inbound to that airport. More on topic though, I think the worst thing about the rest requirements is that I pretty much can't understand anything about them. Nobody around here ever knows they have a 34 hour problem unless scheduling calls and tells them so. I guess maybe I should be calculating that while I'm up in the air as well. All the while I'm paranoid as hell that the feds are gonna bust me for some paperwork issue that doesn't even pertain to safety in any way. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I have a job but there need to be some changes made in this industry and I don't see those changes happening any time soon, if ever.