labbats
Zulu who?
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Today we were talking in the cockpit and we got on the topic of the FAA. Namely why they haven't moved to allow airlines struggling with fuel costs to go GPS direct, or made any move to change our duty regs.
16 hours on duty is far from safe. 12 hours seems reasonable. Seems to me people move up and hold a line and forget all about us on reserve pushing 14-16 hours when thunderstorms hit O'hare.
I'm not familiar with all airlines, but I know that all our FMSs have dual GPS backups, we mainly fly with that and use Navaids as backup, rather than vice-versa. We could go direct anywhere. I imagine most everyone is the same.
(edited to answer questions by inconceivable)
16 hours on duty is far from safe. 12 hours seems reasonable. Seems to me people move up and hold a line and forget all about us on reserve pushing 14-16 hours when thunderstorms hit O'hare.
I'm not familiar with all airlines, but I know that all our FMSs have dual GPS backups, we mainly fly with that and use Navaids as backup, rather than vice-versa. We could go direct anywhere. I imagine most everyone is the same.
(edited to answer questions by inconceivable)
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