Flight Risks: How Scientists Are Combatting Sleep at 30,000 Feet

[Glenn Quagmire]

"I’m participating in a biometrics-capturing session in Boeing’s Crew Fatigue Monitoring study. The research is a cooperative project with Delta Air Lines to collect and interpret a massive data set examining the biometrics of tired pilots. The goal is to better understand the signals that indicate fatigue and perhaps implement a warning system based on the warning signs.

Tired pilots can be dangerous pilots. The FAA cites “unstable approaches, lining up on the wrong runway, and landing without clearances” as just a few examples of so-called fatigue-related events. And fatigue played a role in a 2009 crash near Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 people."

Glad to see the research done. I hope it leads to one level of safety for cargo and pax airlines.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/08/ap_pilotfatigue/

 

[Kev3188]

Same here.

Shame the Widget has no issue with routinely flying F/A's into the (proverbial) ground...

 

[traderjake]

Maybe if the FAA didn't allow airllines to schedule crews for 6 hours sleep and then fly 4 legs they wouldn't be tired.

 

[southwind]

Same here.

Shame the Widget has no issue with routinely flying F/A's into the (proverbial) ground...

Didn't know F/A's were instrumental in lining up aircraft, on their approach!

 

[Kev3188]

They are instrumental in passenger safety, and they are instrumental in customer service.

You know, face of the airline, and all that...

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

Didn't know F/A's were instrumental in lining up aircraft, on their approach!

Make sure you tell them that the next time you non-rev.

I will even bet that you have no clue what the aircraft lines up on on that approach.