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The Board of Pilot Commissioners Pilot Fitness Committee is pleased to present a study titled "Pilot Fitness Study for the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun" (.pdf) prepared by Dr. Robert Kosnik, M.D. of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. 

The study is the product of Dr. Kosnik's extensive research and the results of a series of public workshops conducted by the Committee that commenced on April 16, 2009.  We believe the study and its recommendations will be of great value to the Board as it considers advances in pilot fitness standards and oversight.  While the Board may not adopt every recommendation contained in the study, its various Committees will use this to guide them in developing future policy. 

Pilot Fitness Committee Chairman, Captain Steve Roberts, would like to express his appreciation to Dr. Kosnik for his work, and to the subject matter experts who are his colleagues on the Pilot Fitness Committee and who contributed so much to the success of the endeavor - Brigadier General Chester Ward (U.S. Army, Retired), M.D., and Mrs. Barbara A. Price, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alameda County Medical Center.

The Board of Pilot Commissioners was established in 1850 to provide State oversight for the San Francisco Bar Pilots.

The Board continues this function to the present day.

The Board's responsibilities include training, licensing, incident investigation and rate determination.

The Board of Pilot Commissioners is a department of the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.