Flight Crew fatigue
Aviation has been a part of our world for more than a century, enabling the movement of goods and passengers around the globe. Corporate pilots are often responsible for making these connections. Of great importance to these pilots is ample rest, both during and in between assignments.
Corporate pilots must take rest periods that meet federally mandated flight crew member requirements to ensure their mental and physical health before performing complex maneuvers as well as other interrelated elements of aircraft operation. It’s also important for corporate pilot rest periods to be maintained during long trips that can involve time changes. Corporate pilot rest is essential in providing a safe operating environment while giving customers peace of mind when they fly with a particular airline or charter service.
14 CFR § 91.1059
91.1059 Flight time limitations and rest requirements: One or two pilot crews.
(a.) No program manager may assign any flight crewmember, no flight crewmember may accept an assignment, for flight time as a member of a one- or two-pilot crew if that crewmember’s total flight time in all commercial flying will exceed;
- 500 hours in any calendar quarter;
- 800 hours in any two consecutive calendar quarters;
- 1,400 hours in any calendar year.
(b.) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, during any 24 consecutive hours the total flight time of the assigned flight, when added to any commercial flying by that flight crewmember, may not exceed;
- 8 hours for a flight crew consisting of one pilot; or
- 10 hours for a flight crew consisting of two pilots qualified under this subpart for the operation being conducted.
(c) No program manager may assign any flight crewmember, and no flight crewmember may accept an assignment, if that crewmember’s flight time or duty period will exceed, or rest times will be less than as per the above FAR’s.
NVOII is and will always be an advocate for the rules and regulations as set out via the FAR’s
