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India's aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has announced new measures to address concerns of pilot fatigue..
Pilots will need to be given a break for 48 hours at the end of a work week, up from 36 hours at present, Indias aviation regulator said on Monday, expanding the mandatory rest period as part of several measures aimed at addressing growing concern of fatigue among flight crew.ge..
Among the new steps is also expanding the definition of night duty by an hour (now till 6am from midnight), and capped the maximum flight duty hours to 10 hours from the existing 13 hours for pilots working in night operations..
The new FDTL also reduces the maximum number of landings allowed for a pilot on night operations to be reduced from six to two, and the regulator will also mandate all airline operators to submit quarterly fatigue reports..
The DGCA statement said FRMS was a data-driven approach to enhance monitoring and reporting of flight crew fatigue and would require the collaboration of various aviation stakeholders to implement stringent monitoring, record keeping and reporting..
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