New Fatigue Rules in Canada
Transport Canada (TC) has given the country’s major airlines two years to implement new flight and duty time limits that reduce the number of hours that pilots may fly each year as well as the length of flight duty periods.
The new rules will limit pilots to 1,000 flight hours in any 365 consecutive days, compared with the 1,200-hour limit in current regulations. The new regulations will retain the existing 300-hour limit for 90 days and add a new requirement of no more than 112 flight hours in any 28 consecutive days. Currently, pilots may fly no more than 120 hours in any 30 consecutive days. The new regulations will eliminate the existing requirement of no more than 40 to 60 hours in any seven consecutive days.
Operators also will have the optio…
