I have been thinking the same thing.
The difference is controllers are paid by the taxpayers so the government does not mind increasing controller costs.

IMHO

Are you freaking kidding me!?! Less than 1 week later after ATC falls asleep they have new rest rules! What does it take for us!!! We should all be up in arms after this latest announcement!!!

already a thread

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...ules-push.html

My bad. I've been out of the loop but still feel this should be part of the Majors thread. After all, we are all a part of this fight together!

Prior to this, the rest / duty rules were very simple. Nothing like flight crews.

- 1 day in 7 had to be off duty

- 8 hours between duty periods (split shifts notwithstanding)

- 10 hour max duty day

- Per contract, no more than 2 hours on position without a break


So, for these mid shifts, you could work 3pm-11pm on Monday, 7am-3pm on Tues, and come in that late evening at 11pm, and work until 7am the next morning.

It has exactly 8 hours rest between each, with 8 hour shifts.

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i agree this opportunity completely should have been to brought light on both subjects, sadly as usual it will take another smoking hole to do it.

I am very upset! I posted what I said on the Major forums and the powers that be decided it wasn't worthy of their time!

I guess my real question is, do you think this is a regular thing to be scheduled for 8 hours between shifts as a controller? I know at the regional level of airlines at a company that is not even considered the bottom of the barrel, 8 hours or rest between shifts has become very common. I guess we as pilots are just getting used to it. So maybe science will change for us.

No, the difference is that the controllers arnt privatized so theres no one lobbying against them. If the govenment didnt care about cost at all these towers would have been staffed with more than one controller since the very beginning.