Anonymous

Document ID: FAA-2009-1093-0025
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
Received Date: September 14 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: September 14 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: September 14 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: November 15 2010, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80b4eb92
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This is comment on Rule

Flightcrew Member Duty and Rest Requirements

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How is it possible to get the necessary 8 hours of sleep when the NPRM only allows 9 from hotel checkin to start of FDP. Within that nine hours, then, a pilot must wake up at least 30 minute prior to leaving the hotel to take care of personal needs, travel from the hotel to the airport, go through security, and be at the aircraft usually 30 minutes prior to flight. This is at the very least an indisputable, non-negotiable hour and half used of the nine hours of rest taking the pilot to only 7.5 hours of rest. Then, by the FAAs own standards of maintaining nutruitional requirements for safe flight the pilot must find and eat at least one meal, if not two, during this nine hours. Meals are no longer provided to pilots, and some carriers don't even have food on the plane. This is at least another hour. Now the pilot is down to 6.5 hours of rest.