Flight And Duty Time Limitations

FINAL REPORT

Prepared by;

 Sami Ahmed BAMM-F16-011

SUPERIOR UNIVERSITY, LAHORE PAKISTAN

Batch 2016-2020

Submitted to; Sir Inam Ikram

Submission Date; 02/Dec/2019

This report summarizes the work completed on the flight and duty time limitations.

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 Contents

 Matter and Issue

 Definitions

 Operator Responsibilities

 Fatigue Risk Management (FRM)

 Flight Time Specification

o Commercial Air Transport Operators(FDP)

 Flight Times and Duty Times Periods

 Reserve

 Rest Periods

 Fatigue Management Training

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 Matter and Issue

This regulation establishes requirements to meet an administrator and its group

individuals in connection to flight and obligation time limits and to meet prerequisites for
team individuals. It meets specialized prerequisites and managerial strategies identified
with air operations.

Flight and Duty time limitations (FTL) are necessary to ensure that air crew fatigue does
not endanger flight safety.Pilot fatigue (due to long duty hours, insufficient rest/sleep
opportunities etc.) can pose a risk to the safety of air operations.

DEFINITIONS

"Duty period" implies a period which starts when a team part needs an administrator to
begin or end obligation and when that individual is soothed of all obligations including
flight charges.

"Flight duty period ('FDP')" start when the crew is required to report for a duty and ends
when the crew is free from all duties

"Rest period" implies a nonstop, continuous and characterized period after obligation or
before obligation, during which a group part is calmed everything being equal, backup
and stores

Operator Responsibilities

An operator shall:

 Sufficiently distribute obligation lists ahead of time to give team individuals the
chance to design satisfactory rest;

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  Ensure that the span of flight obligation is arranged in a way that empowers group
individuals to be adequately free from weariness with the goal that they can work
to an acceptable degree of wellbeing in all conditions;
 Specify revealing time permitting adequate time for ground obligations;
 Keep as a main priority the connection between flight obligation span and the
recurrence and example of rest periods and consider the total impacts of delayed
obligation joined with negligible rest periods;
 Allocate obligation designs that keep away from rehearses that reason extreme
disturbance of a built up rest/work design, for example, day/night obligation pivot;;
 Provide adequate rest periods for team individuals to defeat the impacts of past
obligations and rest until the beginning of the accompanying flight obligation
period;

Fatigue Risk Management (FRM)

The FRM flight time determination plan will consider the size of the administrator and the
nature of its exercises, the related dangers intrinsic in those exercises and fit in with the
material flight time detail plan.
The FRM will be established, implemented and maintained for continuous improvement
in the overall performance of the FRM and will include:

 A description of the operator's principles regarding FRM, called FRM policy;

 Documentation of FRM methods, including a procedure to make staff mindful of
their procedures for revising this documentation;
 Scientific knowledge and theory;
 A hazard identification and risk assessment process that allows the operator's
operational risk (s) to be generated from fatigue of a crew member on an ongoing
basis;
 A risk mitigation process that provides for the immediate implementation of
remedial actions that are necessary to effectively reduce the operator's risk arising
from fatigue of a crew member and mitigation of fatigue risks achieved by such
actions For continuous monitoring;
 FRM security assurance procedures;
 FRM promotion process

Flight Time Specification

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Operators will establish, implement and maintain flight timing specification plans that are
appropriate for the type (s) of performance. Prior to implementation, flight timing
specification schemes, wherein the respective FRMs will be approved by the competent
authority where necessary.

Commercial Air Transport Operators

The operator shall establish procedures for specifying how the commander will perform
in the case of special circumstances that may cause severe fatigue, and after
consultation with the crew members concerned, reduce the actual flight duty period
(FDP) and / or Increase the duration of rest in order. To eliminate any harmful effects on
flight safety.

Whenever cabin crew requires more time than flight crew for their pre-flight briefing for
the same sector or range of sectors, the cabin crew's FDP is increased by the reporting
time difference between cabin crew and flight crew Can. The difference shall not exceed
1 hour. The maximum daily FDP for cabin crew will be based on the time the flight crew
reports for its FDP, but the FDP will begin at the cabin crew's reporting time.

The maximum daily FDP can be increased more than 2 hours on 7 consecutive days. in
that case:

The minimum pre-flight and post-flight duration will be extended by 2 hours; Or

Post-flight duration will be extended by 4 hours.
Flight timing particular plans determine the conditions for the development of the most
extreme essential day by day FDP as indicated by the confirmation determinations
pertinent to the sort of activity, which consider:

Number of flying areas;

Minimum in-flight rest assigned to each crew member;
Type of in-flight rest facilities;
Basic flight crew growth.
In case of unforeseen circumstances in flight operations, the conditions for modification
of limits on flight duty, duty and rest periods by the commander, which commences at or
after the reporting time, shall comply with the following:

The maximum daily FDP cannot be increased beyond 2 hours unless the flight crew has
been augmented, in which case the maximum flight duty period may not be increased
beyond 3 hours;

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If the permitted increase in the final zone within the FDP is exceeded because of
unforeseen circumstances after take-off, the flight may continue to the planned
destination or alternate aerodrome; And
The remaining period after FDP may be shorter but never less than 10 hours.
Where an FDP increase or rest period exceeds 1 hour, a copy of the report, to which the
operator will add his or her comment, will be sent by the CAT operator to the competent
officer no later than 28 days after the incident.

Flight Times and Duty Periods

The total duty period assigned to a crew member shall not exceed:

60 duty hours on any 7 consecutive days;

110 duty hours on 14 consecutive days;
190 duty hours in any 28 days, spread equally practically during that period.
Total flight time in areas to which a crew member is assigned as an operating crew
member:

100 hours of flight time in 28 consecutive days

900 hours of flight time in any schedule year;

1,000 hours of flight time in any 12 continuous schedule months.

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 Reserve

If an operator assigns crew members to reserve, the following requirements will apply
according to the certification specifications applicable to the type of operation:
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The reserve will be in the roster;

The flight timing specification scheme will specify the following elements:
Maximum duration of a single reserve period;
The number of consecutive reserve days that can be assigned TO a crew member.

Rest Periods

The minimum remaining period provided before taking the FDP starting at home base
shall remain at least as long as the duty period, or 12 hours, whichever is longer. The
minimum remaining period provided before the FDP is taken away from the home base
shall remain at least as long as the preceding duty period or 10 hours, whichever is longer.
This period will include an 8-hour sleep opportunity in addition to time for travel and
physical needs.

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 Fatigue Management Training

The operator will provide initial and recurrent fatigue management training to the crew
members, who will be responsible for the preparation and maintenance of the crew's
roster and management personnel.

This training will follow a training program established by the operator and described in
the operations manual. The training course will cover the possible causes and effects of
fatigue and fatigue response.

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