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But high-ranking White House and FAA officials concluded that all commercial pilots transporting passengers, military or otherwise, should abide by the same flight-time and work-hour limits.

FAA Set to Release Pilot-Fatigue Rules Andy Pasztor 2011

Federal air-safety regulators on Wednesday are set to issue new regulations overhauling decades-old fatigue rules for commercial pilots, but the tighter work-hour limits won't be mandatory for airlines that only transport cargo, according to people familiar with the plan.

FAA Set to Release Pilot-Fatigue Rules Andy Pasztor 2011

New rules to combat commercial-pilot fatigue likely will impose less-stringent work-hour limits on cargo carriers than on passenger airlines, according to people familiar with the details.

Limits for Pilots May Exclude Cargo Carriers Andy Pasztor 2011

Since 2000, factory output per work-hour has increased 66% in the U.S. and 90% in South Korea, but only 38% in Japan.

Tokyo's Intervention That Can't Richard Katz 2011

But in a separate move bound to complicate the FAA's effort to draft new rules combating pilot fatigue, the House approved an amendment exempting pilots of all-cargo charter aircraft and air ambulances from those anticipated flight-time and work-hour restrictions.

UPS to Install Cockpit Smoke-Protection as Congress Debates Aviation Bill Andy Pasztor 2011

A coalition including his group issued a report card on the draft, including an "F" on oversight because the group ignored a recommendation for government monitoring of work-hour regulations.

New Regulations Proposed For Recent Med School Grads 2010

In aviation it has long been accepted that humans are fallible; flight crews, for instance, must go off-duty after they reach a work-hour limit.

Building Team Spirit Laura Landro 2010

But it is not easy for economists to work into their models, so they assume the 80th work-hour is as productive as the first.

Matthew Yglesias » Vacation 2007

Finally, Mr. Babbitt says, he wants to "bring science" to hotly-contested debates over work-hour limits, in order to reduce fatigue hazards for cockpit crews, flight attendants and controllers.

FAA Administrator Nominee Gets Strong Airline Support 2009

Even when I am pressed from all sides, working a 60 work-hour week and then coming home to motor though stuff for my graduate degree, I will make time for a Cory Doctorow story.

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