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Air carrier captain reported they feel fatigue events are under-reported due in part to a lengthy fatigue reporting form.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1398716 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201610 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Second fatigue event in a month due to hotel fire alarms. Fatigue form is so long people do not want to spend [their] 'home' time filling out needless details and not getting paid for it. This skews data collection in a direction the company would favor. Built in bias disqualifies any scientific foundation results might hope to claim. Question of getting paid for operationally originated fatigue and the delay the company uses before providing the compensation pilots were counting on to pay bills inhibits fatigue calls and greatly diminishes safety at [this airline]. This could easily be fixed by the company; but it appears financial motivations are outweighing this; increasing a significant safety issue.it appears the company's solution to increased fatigue and pilot CRM problems is to make it harder to report and more difficult for the pilots to avoid the situation. Safety is being compromised through both policies and I am seeing it on the line as a consistent line captain. In accordance with the company's professed safety policy; I am saying something.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier Captain reported they feel fatigue events are under-reported due in part to a lengthy fatigue reporting form.
Narrative: Second fatigue event in a month due to hotel fire alarms. Fatigue form is so long people do not want to spend [their] 'home' time filling out needless details and not getting paid for it. This skews data collection in a direction the company would favor. Built in bias disqualifies any scientific foundation results might hope to claim. Question of getting paid for operationally originated fatigue and the delay the company uses before providing the compensation pilots were counting on to pay bills inhibits fatigue calls and greatly diminishes safety at [this airline]. This could easily be fixed by the company; but it appears financial motivations are outweighing this; increasing a significant safety issue.It appears the company's solution to increased fatigue and pilot CRM problems is to make it harder to report and more difficult for the pilots to avoid the situation. Safety is being compromised through both policies and I am seeing it on the line as a consistent line Captain. In accordance with the company's professed safety policy; I am saying something.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.