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    • The aviation industry is investigating Extended Minimum Crew Operations (eMCO) for long-haul flights.
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    • To identify and discuss critical aeromedical concerns associated with the eMCO concept.
    • To highlight the need for new risk assessment strategies and reliable monitoring tools.

    Main Methods:

    • Review and analysis of existing aeromedical principles and research.
    • Identification of gaps in current knowledge regarding long-haul flight monotony, sleep, and incapacitation monitoring.

    Main Results:

    • Current safety paradigms relying on two pilots are challenged by eMCO.
    • Inadequate technology exists for reliably monitoring pilot incapacitation.
    • Existing data from augmented flights cannot predict eMCO-specific alertness issues.
    • Physiological needs (urination, defecation, menstruation) pose operational challenges for a single flying pilot.

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    • eMCO necessitates a novel aeromedical risk assessment framework.
    • Development of reliable incapacitation detection systems is crucial.
    • Further research is needed to understand the effects of monotony, sleep, and physiological events on pilot performance in eMCO.
    • Operational protocols must address potential disruptions caused by a single pilot's physiological needs.