submission - Independent Pilots Association

Remarks of Dr. Dement
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How about that the flight is _eoing to happen, There is going to be every day in
America, pilots that report to work at 2300 or whatever and fly until 0800 the next
morning. Now, what's different about the man who knou's a week, a month in
advance that this is going to be his schedule and the reserve pilot who finds out at
noon after having woken up at 8 a.m.? What 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 can pretty much depend that I will fall
asleep. It'snot l00Tobutyoukindof learnthatoryoupr¿ìcticeorwhatever. But
if it's without warning, all bets are off.
Dr. Dement, you've kind of led the discussion into another area of this
rulemaking that has to do with an alternative method. Assuming that the pilots in
this protected time period method were depleted, the carriers then want to give
pilots advance notice to cover any mission or any assignment. They are looking
at l0 hours as the criteria. We don't believe that to be adequate based upon . . .
Are you talking lO-hour warning?
Ten-hour warning, yes. To do an¡hing.
That would be 1007o wrong.
whv?
Well, because the l0 hours could fall sort of toward the beginning of what we call
"clock dependent learning." There's no way you could sleep. And then you go
into your duty period at the worse possible time you could have in that situation.
What sort of time would you think would be adequate to give a guy enough time
to get an opportunity to rest so that he would be safer than l0 hours?
A: Trventy-four hours. At least a day before. Wouldn't you think? I don't see how
vou can get notified as the day is beginning and feel you could depend on being
able to take a nap. If it happened every day or somehow ¡ ou know that you could
certainly -set the probability up, but it's not something that 1'ou could ever really
control. Again, there ought to be a better way.
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