Tue, Aug 09, 2011
Congress Mandated The Release Of Rules By August 1st
The Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations
(CAPA), representing over 28,000 commercial passenger and cargo
pilots, is calling on the FAA to release the new Flight/Duty Time
regulations addressing airline pilot fatigue as required by the
Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Extension Act of 2010.
Congress, in H.R. 5900, called for new, scientifically-based
limitations on the hours of flight and duty time for pilots in
order to address fatigue. Furthermore, Congress mandated
those rules be released no later than August 1, 2011. That
deadline has passed while the rule is being analyzed at the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB).
“The concern is that the scientifically based set of
flight time/duty time regulations addressing pilot fatigue is now
at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and faces a possible
rewrite due to overstated airline management cost concerns and not
scientific facts regarding human fatigue,” comments Captain
Carl Kuwitzky, President of CAPA.
CAPA and the FAA each agree in providing comprehensive solutions to
regulatory reforms, and have long advocated “One Level of
Safety” for all commercial flight operations: both passenger
and all-cargo. Tremendous steps forward were made in the
proposed rules such as “One Level Safety” and strongly
defined pilot rest requirements. For more than 25 years the
NTSB has called for meaningful reform of these regulations to no
avail, but now they are within reach. The associations say it is
"vitally important to the safety of our nation’s aviation
transportation system" that these new rules be implemented without
further delay.
The Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations is a Trade
Association includes pilots for American Airlines, Southwest
Airlines, UPS Airlines, US Airways, Southern Air, ABX Air, Atlas
Air Cargo, Kalitta Air, Polar Air Cargo, Arrow Air, and Horizon
Air, Miami Air, USA 3000, Omni Air, Gulfstream Air.
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