Help end the Cargo Carve-Out
- Thread starter Polar742
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Screaming_Emu
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ozziecat35
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
Done!
CUTigerPilot
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Done 
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Done.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
D-U-Ntacularific.
PropSettin'
Low n Slow
Done'd it while i dropped the Cosby kids off at the pool
BravoHotel
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Done.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Oh, you're on the social medias?
etflies
Keeping calm, Chiving on.
I still dabble now and then. Plus I enjoy deciphering this one tall guy's vague posts.
averettpilot
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Done
Polar742
All the responsibility none of the authority
Probably just 121, but that is a start. Imagine actually holding the same regulation to the same regulations! Hopefully 135 will be soon.
Thanks for your support!
A Life Aloft
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Martin, I have now (been working on this a few days) sent out the link with an explanation by email to a huge list of friends, business contacts, family, employees, former co-workers and even clients. You name it, I sent them one. I have also asked everyone in the email to pass it on to everyone they can/know like a chain mail and hopefully we can all generate some good here.
It's ridiculous that freight carriers were exempted from the new rules to begin with. Same aircraft, same routes, same airspace, same airports. What's worse is all the backside of the clock flying that the majority of cargo pilots have to contend with continuously that many pax pilots do not. Add to that the time zone changes and it's really wearing mentally, physically and psychologically on a person. The freight companies can damn well afford to do the right thing, but without the FAA being pressured to get off their collective asses, they won't.
There have existed for years, studies and research from the negative effects of just working night shifts, let alone doing so with time changes and longer work shifts and performing a highly technical job where SI is paramount. Pilot fatigue is pilot fatigue and doesn't disappear because you are moving goods and not people. How anyone can not believe that the science which created the rest/duty rules for pax pilots cannot apply to freight pilots, is beyond me. It makes as much sense as leaving the rules as an option for companies. Really? Safety and the health/well being of a business's employees are an option? That must be why all the cargo carriers rushed forward to use the option and apply them to their employees and do the right thing. Like this would ever happen.
It's ridiculous that freight carriers were exempted from the new rules to begin with. Same aircraft, same routes, same airspace, same airports. What's worse is all the backside of the clock flying that the majority of cargo pilots have to contend with continuously that many pax pilots do not. Add to that the time zone changes and it's really wearing mentally, physically and psychologically on a person. The freight companies can damn well afford to do the right thing, but without the FAA being pressured to get off their collective asses, they won't.
There have existed for years, studies and research from the negative effects of just working night shifts, let alone doing so with time changes and longer work shifts and performing a highly technical job where SI is paramount. Pilot fatigue is pilot fatigue and doesn't disappear because you are moving goods and not people. How anyone can not believe that the science which created the rest/duty rules for pax pilots cannot apply to freight pilots, is beyond me. It makes as much sense as leaving the rules as an option for companies. Really? Safety and the health/well being of a business's employees are an option? That must be why all the cargo carriers rushed forward to use the option and apply them to their employees and do the right thing. Like this would ever happen.
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