Rest rules
#15
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: ANC-Based MD-11 FO
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And yet, the vast majority of guys I fly with vote Republican. How much more will it take for pilots to realize that the Republican party and in this case, the Republican-controlled House, will say anything to the public but will always vote in support of business leaders. Go ahead and be unhappy with the President as a person but realize that the Democratic Party's platform supports workers rights and workers benefits and guess what? Pilots are workers.
#16
And yet, the vast majority of guys I fly with vote Republican. How much more will it take for pilots to realize that the Republican party and in this case, the Republican-controlled House, will say anything to the public but will always vote in support of business leaders. Go ahead and be unhappy with the President as a person but realize that the Democratic Party's platform supports workers rights and workers benefits and guess what? Pilots are workers.
#17
And yet, the vast majority of guys I fly with vote Republican. How much more will it take for pilots to realize that the Republican party and in this case, the Republican-controlled House, will say anything to the public but will always vote in support of business leaders. Go ahead and be unhappy with the President as a person but realize that the Democratic Party's platform supports workers rights and workers benefits and guess what? Pilots are workers.
#18
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,919
And yet, the vast majority of guys I fly with vote Republican. How much more will it take for pilots to realize that the Republican party and in this case, the Republican-controlled House, will say anything to the public but will always vote in support of business leaders. Go ahead and be unhappy with the President as a person but realize that the Democratic Party's platform supports workers rights and workers benefits and guess what? Pilots are workers.
Yeah, Democrats have undoubtedly been in support of workers' rights and benefits.
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"Every pilot has a personal responsibility to arrive at work fit for duty," said FAA Acting Administrator Michael Huerta. "This new rule gives pilots enough time to get the rest they really need to safely get passengers to their destinations."
Development of the rules pitted the pilots, who advocated greater rest for safety, against the airlines, which argued that limiting flight times will raise costs.
FAA estimated the rule would cost airlines nearly $300 million a year. But Airlines for America, a trade group representing airlines, estimated it could cost $2 billion more each year.
Another dispute in development of the rules was whether to apply the same rules to cargo pilots as the pilots of commercial airliners. The FAA decided not to apply to rules to cargo pilots because of the costs to that industry, Huerta said.
LaHood said he would invite cargo executives to his office in 2012 and urge them to voluntarily to adopt the rule.
"It was tough to implement it on cargo because of the cost-benefit to this," LaHood said.
The package-delivery company UPS argued in comments to the FAA against the same standards because cargo pilots fly mostly at night and carry fewer people. The company's 2,600 pilots have gotten used to flying at night and sleeping by day, so limiting consecutive overnight flights would disrupt them. The company warned that night-time restrictions would require them to hire more pilots and install sleeping facilities on some planes.
Robert Travis, president of the Independent Pilots Association for UPS pilots, blasted the exemption for cargo pilots.
"Giving air cargo carriers the choice to opt-in to new pilot rest rules makes a much sense as allowing truckers to 'opt-out' of drunk driving laws," Travis said. "To potentially allow fatigued cargo pilots to share the same skies with properly rested passenger pilots creates an unnecessary threat to public safety."
The National Transportation Safety Board has urged safety enhancements to reduce pilot fatigue for decades. While the board didn't blame fatigue as a cause in the Colgan crash near Buffalo, the board found that neither pilot appeared to have slept in a bed the night before.
Relatives of the victims lobbied Congress for better schedules to give pilots rest. The relatives also urged FAA to complete the rules that were due Aug. 1, but were delayed with review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Development of the rules pitted the pilots, who advocated greater rest for safety, against the airlines, which argued that limiting flight times will raise costs.
FAA estimated the rule would cost airlines nearly $300 million a year. But Airlines for America, a trade group representing airlines, estimated it could cost $2 billion more each year.
Another dispute in development of the rules was whether to apply the same rules to cargo pilots as the pilots of commercial airliners. The FAA decided not to apply to rules to cargo pilots because of the costs to that industry, Huerta said.
LaHood said he would invite cargo executives to his office in 2012 and urge them to voluntarily to adopt the rule.
"It was tough to implement it on cargo because of the cost-benefit to this," LaHood said.
The package-delivery company UPS argued in comments to the FAA against the same standards because cargo pilots fly mostly at night and carry fewer people. The company's 2,600 pilots have gotten used to flying at night and sleeping by day, so limiting consecutive overnight flights would disrupt them. The company warned that night-time restrictions would require them to hire more pilots and install sleeping facilities on some planes.
Robert Travis, president of the Independent Pilots Association for UPS pilots, blasted the exemption for cargo pilots.
"Giving air cargo carriers the choice to opt-in to new pilot rest rules makes a much sense as allowing truckers to 'opt-out' of drunk driving laws," Travis said. "To potentially allow fatigued cargo pilots to share the same skies with properly rested passenger pilots creates an unnecessary threat to public safety."
The National Transportation Safety Board has urged safety enhancements to reduce pilot fatigue for decades. While the board didn't blame fatigue as a cause in the Colgan crash near Buffalo, the board found that neither pilot appeared to have slept in a bed the night before.
Relatives of the victims lobbied Congress for better schedules to give pilots rest. The relatives also urged FAA to complete the rules that were due Aug. 1, but were delayed with review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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