October 8th

A Tired Pilot Is a Tired Pilot, Regardless of the Plane Recently, international airplane pilots have been falling asleep while in the air, so that the plane is flying only on autopilot for unknown periods of time. One example is a pilot and copilot who were flying an International Airbus-330 to the United Kingdom, and they fell asleep midway through the flight. They fell asleep because they had only gotten five hours of sleep during the previous 48 hours, or 2 days. This is reminding people of the danger of having fatigued pilots flying any long-distance aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration will soon implement new rules for pilot fatigue. The Federal Avaition Administration has set up a rule that all pilots must have had at least 10 hours of sleep before a flight, because fatigue crawls up onto these pilots and decreases their mental capacity, making it difficult for them to keep control over the plane, because they want it sleep. In a survey pilots took, about half of them admitted to dozing off during a flight. The Federal Aviation Administration should really be more careful and make rules and guidelines, before innocent lives are put into danger.