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Jeppesen, a part of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, has introduced an improved version of
CrewAlert, the leading mobile app for airline crew for fatigue risk management.
The enhanced CrewAlert app now is able to immediately calculate a strategy from hundreds of thousands of sleep patterns and light exposure combinations to increase crew alertness
and overall flight safety.
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Currently, airline crew are increasingly being trained in
fatigue risk management as required by regulators worldwide. In addition to training in the basic science
behind crew fatigue, the
training also contains fatigue mitigation strategies. Such strategies have been designed
for an average individual and are usually difficult to apply to a specific roster context given individual
properties, time zone changes, departure times, and prior sleep/wake patterns.
Jeppesen is now simplifying the application of
scientific principles to a specific crew roster context with the new functionality offered by CrewAlert. The new version contains
built-in
scientific mitigation strategies automatically calculated to fit to the roster and individual settings such as
individual sleep requirements, commute times and more. With a simple tap on the
app timeline, a strategy for boosting and maintaining alertness at that point in time is
calculated within seconds, investigating up to 900,000 possible sleep patterns and light exposure
combinations.
“It is important to keep in mind, although CrewAlert takes
personal history and settings into account, that these mitigation strategies are tailored to a population of crew
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Klemets, head of Scheduling Safety at Jeppesen. “CrewAlert now makes it so much easier to apply and adapt
them to the
airline roster - confirmed by the feedback from our test group of pilots over the past
few months.” |
CrewAlert is designed for airline crew, crew scheduling staff and flight safety
departments, and contains a wide range of functionality making it a suitable app for addressing the
recommendations from ICAO on predictive, proactive and reactive fatigue risk capabilities.
It can be used for comparing and quantifying roster alternatives, predicting fatigue risk in
upcoming duties, comparing sleep alternatives, collecting operational fatigue data, efficient fatigue reporting - and now also for determining suitable fatigue mitigation strategies.
CrewAlert is available for iOS devices only and can be found on the iTunes App store in most major countries worldwide. CrewAlert Lite, a version not containing the new fatigue mitigation
functionality, is available free of charge worldwide.
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