submission - Independent Pilots Association

do some studies and vou can demonstrate that occasionally someone r+'ill.
perform prett]'well, but that's not 100oo er-er. It's never Eetting back to peak
performance and it's under the luxuriou-. circumstances of no interruptions, no
noise, etc. I u'ouldn't ever think that napping could make it safe going through
the night.
How about that the flight is going to happen. There is going to be eæry day in America,
pilots thnt report to work at 2300 or whatr;er and fly until0800 the next morning.
No'u, what's different about the man who htm.us A tueek, a month in adaance that this is
going to be his schedule and the reseroe pilot -,tho finds out at noon after haaing woken
up at 8 a.m.? Whnt would be the difference?
You know that the time you do all of the things you can to move toward a better
situation. . ..You can never get to perfection, but the more practice, the more
warning, the better you'll be able to handle it. Some people learn that there is a
time when it's quiet and if I do this,I ca¡r pretty much depend that I will fall
asleep. It's not 100o'o but vou kind of leam that or you practice or whatever. But
if it's r,r'ithout warning, all bets are off.
Dr. Demerit, vou' ¿e kind of led the discusstc'n into another area of this rulentaking tlnt
has to do zt,ith an altnnatit,e method. Assuniing that the pilots in this protected tintc'
period method ¡t,ere depleted, tlrc carriers ti'¿tt u,nnt to gile pilots ad?ßnce notice f o co¿'er
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