§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Transport if the Civil Aviation Authority has conducted any research in the area of pilot fatigue into the average time that flight crews have been awake on arrival in the United Kingdom following three-day transatlantic trips.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerCivil aviation safety is a matter for the Civil Aviation Authority. However, the CAA has informed me that it is at present taking part in an international co-operative research programme on pilot fatigue and sleep, during the course of which problems related to sleep disturbance and deprivation during long east-to-west and west-to-east flights are being studied.
Interim reports are being produced at each stage of the project. The first, on sleep quality and planning strategies following eight-hour time zone change, was published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on 20 February 1986.