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Welcome Braathens Regional Airlines!
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"As we are expanding into charter operations, and thereby more night duties for our crew, we have teamed up with Jeppesen and decided to use the Boeing Alertness Model and Concert for supporting our crew management processes", says Kenneth Norling, acting Head of Planning, at B.R.A. "Concert will enable us to closely monitor and analyse fatigue risk in both planned and flown crew rosters", he concludes.
"We are very excited about teaming up with B.R.A. implementing Concert and BAM", says Jonas Henriksson, Senior FRM Expert, at Jeppesen. "We are delighted with the trust placed in us and we look forward to supporting them in their work for many years to come", he adds.
Concert is a self-service cloud-based analytics platform, accessible via any web browser. Concert has quickly taken the position as one of the leading tools for predicting fatigue risk aspects within aviation and can be 'bolted on' to any crewing process in a matter of days - independent of current solution provider. For more information about Concert, please follow this link.
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FTL Effectiveness: How much lower risk? At what cost?
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Is it at all possible to measure how effective regulatory rules are? Such as the rules governing work and rest time for pilots coming from EASA, FAA and the CAAC?
You are welcome to read about one of the most challenging quests we have ever taken on. Here comes chapter 3: The metrics.
This work is pursued in collaboration with SWISS, another prominent international airline operator, a large space agency, and the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) with the intent of openly publishing the findings. However, this article series that explains the idea, the platform, the metrics, and elaborates on a few selected results, is entirely authored by Jeppesen.
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Have you hit a plateau in your FRM work?
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| Ok..., so you have addressed what is required in the ICAO guidance material and what has been imposed on you by your regulator. You've been in countless meetings with crew representatives, the crew planning department, flight safety and management. You have embraced bio-mathematical models and implemented some acceptance criteria on the predictions as well as for some other SPIs. You have fought what seems an impossible battle to reduce fatigue risk in a very complex crew management process. But you have little evidence of real improvement and now you have yourself contracted 'fatigue fatigue'. You have clearly hit a plateau. Where to go from here?
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| You are not alone. The complexities in the intersection between crew management, sleep science and flight safety are considerable and not at all easy to overcome.
With a desire to rejuvenate energy in FRM post holders we hope to shine a light on possible paths forward for exhausted FRM professionals. Please find here some food for thought in a position paper from Jeppesen on how to 'raise the bar' for your FRM-endeavours. Let's climb the next hill, and beyond!
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Sleep apnea is a big deal
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common and vastly underdiagnosed sleep disorder. One that can contribute to a variety of ailments, affecting virtually every organ in your body. According to SleepApnea.org, 30 million Americans suffer from OSA, with 80 percent of moderate and severe cases undiagnosed.
As severe cases are associated with a higher risk of stroke, heart attack, and diabetes (among other conditions), the failure to recognize this disorder poses serious healthcare consequences, including a financial cost to society. It’s estimated that diagnosing and treating every patient in the United States who has OSA would result in an very substansial annual economic saving.
Likely reasons why sleep apnea is underdiagnosed include... (read more here).
Sleep Cycle, with millions of users worldwide, has built up what is likely to be the world’s richest repository with data reflecting global sleep habits. They have many interesting articles about sleep that are worth checking out on their website.
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Truly informative fatigue reports
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Fatigue reports can be a nuisance to fill out for the crew, especially if they are to provide the company with detailed-enough information to facilitate learning from what occurred. For that to happen, there is a need for roster details describing how crew felt, their prior sleep pattern, likely cause of fatigue, and a few more details.
But did you know that CrewAlert, the go-to app for personal fatigue risk management for more than decade, has all this already built-in? Many pilots would have their flight duties and prior sleep periods automatically populated into CrewAlert already - so why not use that information?
With a simple tap on the screen, more than 90% of the work is done, and a few seconds later the report can be submitted over email. Read more about CrewAlert here. Welcome to try it out on the Apple Appstore.
CrewAlert allows for crew and FSAGs to collect data and perform detailed modelling and what-if's using the Boeing Alertness Model (BAM). A functionality overview is available in this cheat sheet.
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Meet up with our experts:
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APR 25-26: Crew and Fleet Developer Partners Meeting (CDP), Gothenburg
MAY 22-24: AGIFORS, Santiago, Chile
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| Missed out on the previous NewsFlash? It's right here.
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