Jeppesen Fatigue Risk Management Portfolio

Boeing and Jeppesen have jointly developed FRM functionality for allowing airlines to control crew fatigue and fatigue risk in crew planning and operation. The functionality is built into the Jeppesen Crew Management products so that scientific fatigue/alertness models can be accessed while constructing and maintaining crew schedules.

The FRM functionality allows for individual predictions on each flight of both crew alertness and associated risk. The alertness and risk information is available both in the GUI for the end-user but also to the optimizers during pairing and roster creation.

The availability of this information makes it possible to “build” alertness into rosters in the planning stage and to control and monitor it during manual roster maintenance and day-of-operation changes.

Alertness can be built into the crew schedules where it decreases fatigue risk the most – thus addressing the “tail” of the risk distribution. An operator may both use strict limits on fatigue risk, incentives to avoid the risk, alerts on risk thresholds, or any combination of these.

The Jeppesen rule engine RAVE, used in the Jeppesen Crew Management product suite, is able to connect to any scientific fatigue model compliant with CAPI, the Common Alertness Prediction Interface. CAPI enables high-speed integration with optimizers and aligns alertness prediction across models.

Jeppesen Drives Industry-Wide Fatigue Data Collection 
In April, Jeppesen will launch the Fatigue Data Collection 2012; an industry-wide survey to collect pilot and cabin crew fatigue data. Sign up for FDC2012 now. Your input will be valuable for model development, establishing the relevance of applying current models, as well as pointing out similarities and differences between different types of operation and regulatory rules. Read press release here.

Jeppesen Study Highlights Inadequacy Of Strict FTL Rules To Limit Crew Fatigue
Jeppesen recently released the results of a study (pdf) conducted to determine the level of effectiveness of flight and duty time regulations related to crew fatigue management. 

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