I am not a doctor or sleep expert.  However, I believe sleep problems can also be manifested through stress, debt problems, marital factors, job loss, death in family, time zone changes, long work hours, partying, worrying about tomorrow's flight and weather, and other significant challenges in life.   It is not unreasonable that BMI testing should be expanded to include a questionnaire and background checks for all these items and possible loss of privileges for those who may be subject to the potential resulting fatigue if any of the above are present or forecasted.  Hopefully no pilots in the airlines, military, freight dog category are subject to those issues and would be affected.

The definition of "not unreasonable" is really slick avoidance of the test of "is reasonable" or "necessary".  

Dang, if those tired pilots had woken up 25 miles *prior* to destination we might not be having this discussion.

Paul

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>  It does
> not seem unreasonable to me to apply some screening process to consider
> evaluation for pilots who may be  at risk.
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> It is my understanding that this rule was presented after a commercial crew
> (the captain did have a diagnosis of sleep apnea that was not treated, the
> first officer just was tired, but without sleep apnea) BOTH went to sleep
> and overflew the destination by 25 miles  before they happened to wake up.
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