New Delhi: The aviation regulator DGCA has issued orders to airlines stipulating that one of the pilots can sleep in the cockpit at a time during a flight with a minimum duration of three hours.
The DGCA has referred to the practice as “controlled rest” and has stipulated that this shall not be longer than 40 minutes.
“Controlled rest on the flight deck is an effective fatigue mitigation tool for flight crews and is a way of managing unavoidable excessive tiredness in-flight. This involves the use of short sleep periods (naps) by one pilot during low workload phase of the cruise segment,” the DGCA has said.
31/08/13 Deccan Chronicle
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The DGCA has referred to the practice as “controlled rest” and has stipulated that this shall not be longer than 40 minutes.
“Controlled rest on the flight deck is an effective fatigue mitigation tool for flight crews and is a way of managing unavoidable excessive tiredness in-flight. This involves the use of short sleep periods (naps) by one pilot during low workload phase of the cruise segment,” the DGCA has said.
31/08/13 Deccan Chronicle
