1. FATIGUE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (FRMS) A PILOT’S PERSPECTIVE
Captain Don Wykoff
Chairman, Flight Time Duty Time Committee

2. Pilot Fatigue Top Flight Safety Issue
Current flightcrew member duty and rest rules not based on modern sleep science
Need new rules to comply with ICAO
U.S. Part 117 science-based rule effective January 4, 2014

3. Pilot Fatigue Top Flight Safety Issue
Cargo operations excluded
ALPA seeking legislation to include cargo
Part 117 – First time FRMS process is included in a regulation
Part 117 sets standard for adoption by other countries

4. Pilot Fatigue Top Flight Safety Issue
Pilots support FRMS concept
FRMS not a replacement for prescriptive rules
Allows limited flexibility from rules
Viable FRMS must include pilots as partner

5. Fatigue Risk Management Plan (FRMP)
FRMP is a building block to get to FRMS
All U.S. operators, including cargo, must have a plan
FRMP’s goal – reduce fatigue and improve alertness
Tailored to operation
Voluntary fatigue reporting

6. Fatigue Risk Management Plan (FRMP)
Review schedules for fatigue
Operator must investigate reports
Need Fatigue Review Committee
Pilots key to Committee and FRMP

7. FRMS ICAO Annex 6 has guidance for FRMS FRMS Implementation Guide
for Operators – 1st Ed., July 2011
Establish Fatigue Safety Action Group (FSAG)
FSAG is a safety oversight group
Successful FSAG will have pilot representative

8. FRMS FRMS is a six step program Step 1 – Identify City Pair
Step 2 – Determine fatigue hazards and
gather data
Must have cooperation of pilot group to gather good data
Agreements for process to collect data
Need to protect personal data

9. FRMS Step 3 – Analyze data to identify fatigue hazards
Predictive process
Proactive process
Reactive process
Step 4 – Assess safety risk
Step 5 – Select and implement controls and mitigations
Step 6 – Validation period

10. FRMS Effective FRMS is tri-partite approach:
Operator
Regulator
Pilots
Pilots are key member of any successful FRMS

11. FOULS (How we can mess up a perfectly good program)
Pilots
Interrupt data collection and/or halt participation for industrial reasons
Operators
Use voluntary information for punitive reasons or other than intended purposes
Regulators
Fail to set rules to protect data, not hold everyone accountable
How to avoid the “Fouls” ?
The Three “R’s”
Relationship
Respect
Responsibility
The fouls can be avoided by a responsible approach and a professional relationship and respect with other stakeholders

12. QUESTIONS