Originally Posted by
JetPiedmont
Sounds to me like we can either start applying some common sense to our personal management of rest and fatigue or wind up with more "solutions" thru regulation. The same regulating that allows 24 hour duty days with double crews on ultra long-haul.
I still don't think this was a fatigue driven event, as much as it was lack of training and inexperience. Either way the Media/Feds/Capitol Hill have gotten a hold of it, and the circus has begun.
There will be something coming out of this.
There is no way they can come up for a regulation for this. Its nearly impossible. Where do you draw the line? A two hour drive? What happens if it is snowing and my 1 hour drive turns into a 3 hour drive? I contend a 1 hour drive to get to work is much more taxiing than a 2 hour jumpseat. They would have to come up with a book thicker than an Encyclopaedia describing the rules. And if they did come up with some scheme and enforced it there would be total chaos, 50% of the work force would have commuting problems.