Originally Posted by
jayray2
There is no way they can come up for a regulation for this. Its nearly impossible. Where do you draw the line?... 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...
And to that end, I give you one of the FAA's answers to pilot fatigue...."Protected Rest".
There you had one management pilot's attempt to land an airplane in an extremely violent weather situation, and the FAA's focus was on how fatigued they were.