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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:17:26:00

The 7th time in recent weeks that there have been actual reports of controllers in the tower who were keeping. doug mckelway joins me live at reagan international airport with the latest on this. hey, doug. reporter: good to see you. the more the faa tries to get ahead of this issue the more they are epl bared while revelations of sleeping in the towers. the recent one on saturday in miami. the faa administrator randy babbitt along with the president of the air traffic controllers association met with controllers and reporters in atlanta, georgia to spell out changes they are going to impose, effective immediately. they are, there will now be fine hours between any one shift for a single air traffic controller. no swapping of shifts to extend the weekends for air traffic controllers. managers will now be made available on the earn lee morning hours anearly morningho. and new hand off pores put in ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:22:33:00

Traffic controllers, eric bitman is not surprised. he is a controller. the job is stressful. it makes you tired right there then you change to midshift, where you stay up all night long, stare at blank cope with no traffic. they stresses, such as single parenthood, day care issues and regular overnight shift and you have recipe for fatigue, with at least five controllers found sleeping on the job, the latest saturday in miami, secretary of transportation responded with a flurry of rule changes, that include no less than nine hours between shift, no swapping of shifts so controllers can extend their weekends. managers will be made available early morning and late nights. new handoff procedures will be put in place between regional radar controllers and the local airport controllers. faa administrator randy babbitt and the national association president rinaldi embarked on a call to action tour to sell changes to the ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:14:25:00

It appears they are now doing just that. among the changes, that we can see, nine hours between shifts for any one controller and no swapping of shifts will be allowed. they can have long weekends. and so they can have long weekends and managers will have to be present at late hours and early hours and there will be hand-off procedures between the regional radar control and individual control towers and, on fox news sunday, secretary lahood, again, expressed his anger over this. here he is: i have been in this job two-and-a-half years and i don t know when i have been madder and i m outraged about this and want the flying public to know we are doing everything we can 24/7, to correct this problem. reporter: what remains unclear at this point is whether the faa will allow napping for controllers, during those long afternoon shifts, and, during their break time and is something that is done in other countries and scientific studies show it is valuable for people who work on weird s ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:20:25:00

Proposed several rule changes which will take effect immediately. among them, nine hours off, now, between shifts and no swapping of shifts, so, air traffic controllers can spend the weekend. and managers are present for late-night shifts and early morning hours, and in addition, there is a new hand off procedure between the regional radar controllers and local air traffic controllers. and early this morning the f.a.a. administrator and the president of the national air traffic controllers association met with reporters and a group of air traffic controllers in atlanta to out line the plans a scale to action, a tour they are taking all week. we take responsibility in the management side in terms of scheduling. we will work together. we found through modern medicine and studies ways, we will eliminate the things that can be ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:23:16:00

Any one individual controller. no swapping of shifts. managers will now be on duty during the late night and early a.m.s, and there is also a new hand-off procedure between the regional radar control and the local control tower. but but change that the f.a.a. did not make, shep, they are not going to allow, as you just suggested, for sanctioned napping for those controllers on the overnight shift. shepard: they wanted sanctioned napping like at times when jets weren t landing or something? exactly. that s what they wanted. we have spoken to one nationally recognized sleep expert who said you really should provide this kind of thing. he called these changes as they are presently constructed woefully inadequate. taking a nap in the middle of the shift, even for a short period of time will help promote enough alertness to keep them going throughout the rest of the shift. that option, obviously a no starter for the f.a.a. big wigs. here they are. ....

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