Two-thirds of airline pilots responding to an online survey say they routinely discuss fatigue as a safety threat during their preflight and approach briefings, but just over half that number consider their employer “receptive and responsive” to fatigue reports, according to a report in the October issue of Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance.1
Only 32 percent of the 1,108 pilots responding said they considered their employer receptive and responsive when they called in to report themselves too fatigued to fly, the report said.
Responses differed among pilots in the airline’s nine different fleets, and especially between those on short-haul and long haul/ultra-long-range routes, the report said.
“Fatigue reports from crewmembers are a vital source of information for effective fatigue risk management, and pilots are also required not to accept or continue a duty assignment if they consider they are too fatigued to operate safely,” said the rep…
