NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (Reuters) – India’s air security watchdog proposes lowered night time work hours and extra relaxation for pilots, amongst measures to deal with rising complaints of pilot fatigue, in keeping with draft rules seen by Reuters on Saturday.

The proposal from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation come greater than two months after it determined to conduct a review of pilot fatigue information collected throughout spot checks and surveillance of airways.

The overview was launched after an IndiGo (INGL.NS) pilot collapsed and died in August earlier than his flight.

Changes would come with slicing the utmost flight obligation interval to 10 hours from 13 hours for pilots working at night time, and growing the minimal weekly relaxation interval to 48 hours from 36 hours.

The directorate didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the draft.

Such rule modifications are often circulated for feedback from airways, pilots and different stakeholders earlier than being finalised.

While pilot fatigue is a worldwide downside, India is on the coronary heart of the matter because the world’s fastest-growing aviation market, with a whole lot of planes on order by IndiGo and Tata group-owned Air India.

IndiGo, India’s greatest airline, has mentioned the pilot who died had a 27-hour break earlier than obligation and was in good well being.

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