Business aviation operators are facing fatigue risk in a somewhat different way than commercial scheduled operators. Business aviation pilots are normally flying fewer hours than commercial pilots, but they are doing so in a very different environment. The flights are more susceptible to vibration and turbulence, and in-flight sleep facilities are not as good as on larger aircrafts. In addition, the pilots work irregular hours, face a lot more standby time, and more often lack the benefit of prior experience to lean on regarding flight timings and time zone differences. It is not uncommon that the itineraries are long, span over many different time zones and are also taking off at short notice, making it hard for crew to prepare themselves. A useful tool for business aviation crew, that greatly simplifies fatigue prediction, prevention and mitigation, is CrewAlert found on the Apple Appstore. CrewAlert Lite (available free of charge) contains the full Boeing Alertness Model and basic functionality, whereas the Pro version (one-time fee of €30) is able to import crew rosters, load sleep history from wearables, as well as provide fatigue awareness information on the Apple Watch. Links are found here: CrewAlert Lite, CrewAlert Pro.
In case you are interested in integrating CrewAlert Pro with your operation to automatically provide rosters out to crew in CrewAlert, please contact us here.
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