The ALPL Board would like to thank those colleagues who have already participated in the Fatigue Risk Management (FRM) survey. Currently we have received close to 200 responses. The average time taken to fill out the survey is 12-14 minutes.
If you have not participated in the survey yet, we kindly ask you to do so latest until 15 October 2017. The email containing the link to the survey was sent to your Cargolux email account on 22 September 2017 by the Aviation Safety Department on behalf of the FSAG.
Less than 15 minutes of your time are a valuable investment in determining where improvements to managing and mitigating fatigue in our flight operations can be made.
Beginning mid October the Dutch NLR will be seeking volunteers to collect live data for a period of 12 days for the EASA Study on the EU FTLs. We also strongly encourage you to participate in this live data collection. The results will have a direct impact on the EU FTLs and in turn our working conditions.
The following is an update on the data that has been collected from the fatigue reports filed by our crews.
The data clearly points to two key hotspots:
- Long multi-sector duties with an augmented crew, mostly with three pilots
- FDPs approaching 11 hours with a standard crew that encroach the WOCL
To address these hotspots, the following recommendations were sent to the Safety Review Board (SRB) to be actioned by the appropriate post holders.
- Reduce basic maximum daily FDP to 10 hours on the sectors ANC-XXX or XXX-ANC, where EASA would allow 11 hours FDP
- Reduce the rate of long multi-sector FDPs with an augmented crew
- Reduce rate of basic crew duties infringing the WOCL on FDPs greater than 10 hours
Another important issue that your submitted fatigue reports have highlighted is that the fatigue modeling software is underestimating the alertness scores by 20-25%. This means that those flights mentioned above will not necessarily trigger an alert of an approaching fatigue risk.
Again, we ask that you keep a sleep log to serve as a predictor of your alertness on upcoming sectors. If you need additional rest in order to mitigate a potential fatigue risk, please inform the other member/s of your crew, dispatch and the local station of your required new wake up time.
Don’t forget that the CWA does incorporate a measure of protection. The standard crewFDPs must be 30 minutes less than the EASA limits when duties are published (before signing on for a duty). Please refer to the roster publication limits in B1-36.3.1 and insist, that your CWA is respected!
As always, if you need any clarification or assistance please contact your Board at cvboard@alpl.lu.
