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Thomas E. Nesthus

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2011
 
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Orasanu, Judith, Nesthus, Thomas E., Parke, Bonny, Hobbs, Alan, Dulchinos, Vicki, Kraft, Norbert O., McDonnell, Lori, Anderson, Barrett, Tada, Yuri and Mallis, Melissa (2011): Work Schedules and Fatigue Management Strategies in Air Traffic Control (ATC). In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 55th Annual Meeting 2011. pp. 1-5.

This panel will address the role of fatigue in air traffic control (ATC) operations and strategies for developing evidence-based fatigue risk mitigation strategies. Following an introduction to the history of ATC fatigue research, panelists will describe a two-part study with current air traffic controllers involving a web-based survey (available to all U.S. controllers) and validated objective measures of fatigue and alertness. Approaches to modeling and requirements for a Fatigue Risk Management System will be discussed.

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Besco, Robert O., Sangal, Satya P., Nesthus, Thomas E. and Veronneau, Stephen J. H. (1994): A Study of Life Expectancy for a Sample of Retired Airline Pilots. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 38th Annual Meeting 1994. pp. 128-132.

There is a popular belief in the aviation industry that retired pilots die at a younger age than their counterparts in the general population. If this is true, research into factors associated with this career would be of interest to the FAA as indicators of possible health factors to be monitored in the pilot population. A sample of 1494 pilots who retired at age 60 from a major U.S. airline between the study dates of April 1968 to July 1993 were surveyed. The Life Table Method was chosen as the most suitable approach to analyze the pattern of mortality for this data set. Comparisons were made with the U.S. general population of 60 year-old white males in 1980. A difference in life expectancy of more than 5 years longer was found for our sample of retired airline pilots. Half of the pilots in this sample retiring at age 60 were expected to live past 83.8 years of age, compared to 77.4 years for the general population of 60 year-old white males in 1980. The authors concluded that the question of lowered life expectancy for airline cockpit crews was not supported by the results of these data.

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