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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cap-on-pilot-flying-hours-proposed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The European Aviation Safety Agency proposed new limits on flying hours for commercial pilots" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-cap-on-pilot-flying-hours-proposed.jpg" alt="The European Aviation Safety Agency proposed new limits on flying hours for commercial pilots"/></a></p>
<p>New limits on flying hours for commercial pilots have been put forward by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in an attempt to reduce the dangers of aircrew tiredness.</p>
<p>The new rules would standardise current national regulations and would bar airlines from scheduling pilots to be on duty &#8211; both waiting to fly and in the cockpit flying &#8211; longer than 14 hours during the day, and 12 hours at night.</p>
<p>Currently, each country operates according to its own rules. In Britain, for example, pilots are not allowed to be on duty for longer than nine hours a day. Elsewhere in Europe, especially in the east, that limit is much higher.</p>
<p>&#8220;The (document) requires all operators to ensure that the performance of crew members will not deteriorate to the extent that flight safety is endangered because of the effects of fatigue,&#8221; EASA said.</p>
<p>An EASA spokesman said the proposal would be submitted for comments to the airlines, pilots&#8217; unions and air safety groups before a final recommendation is handed to the European Union next year.</p>
<p>Air safety organisations have been pressing for years for tighter regulation and enforcement of working hours and rest periods, driven by worldwide concerns about exhausted pilots working taxing schedules.</p>
<p>They say scientific research has identified the fatigue phenomenon &#8211; which resembles alcoholic intoxication &#8211; as a factor in a fifth of all fatal crashes worldwide.</p>
<p>The European Cockpit Association, representing 39,000 European pilots, said the agency had buckled under pressure from the commercial carriers.</p>
<p>The group, which also opposes efforts by budget-strapped airlines to extend pilots&#8217; work hours, said the EASA proposal ignored research into fatigue, which recommends a maximum of 12 hours on daytime duty and 10 hours at night.</p>
<p>But for the Brussels-based Association of European Airlines, which brings together Europe&#8217;s major airlines, the EASA&#8217;s proposal was &#8220;substantially balanced.&#8221;</p>
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