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I just saw a story on the local news about driving a car after being awake for 17 hours or more.
In this study, they concluded that for adults 25-78 years old, being awake for 17 hours was equivalent to having a blood-alcohol level of .05. After 24 hours, it increased to .10.
So, we NORMALLY work a 14 hour day, wake up an hour or so before our show time and then, after we check in the hotel, get dinner, take a shower, talk to the wife and watch a little t.v., you are almost (physically & mentally), legally drunk.
Kinda gives ya a nice, warm fuzzy feeling doesn't it. Maybe Starkey will send out a new ops bulletin limiting our duty times to 10 hours or less. OH, sorry, I think I am sleep deprived.
Here's the study below (partial):
After staying awake for 24 hours straight, a person will be about as impaired as if he had had enough alcohol to be legally drunk in most states, a study says.
Australian researchers tested 40 people to create a "blood alcohol equivalent'' for different levels of impairment from sleeplessness.
In one experiment, participants stayed awake for 28 hours.
In the other test, they drank alcohol every half hour until they reached a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10 percent. That's the drunken-driving standard in most American states.
Every half hour, the subjects took a computerized test of hand-eye coordination.
Results showed that after 24 hours of sleeplessness, participants were about as impaired as they were at the 0.10 percent level of blood alcohol. After 17 hours, they were about as impaired as they were with an alcohol level of 0.05 percent, which many Western countries define as legally drunk, the researchers said. The State of New Jersey has now made any injury crash involving fatigue, a felony.
In this study, they concluded that for adults 25-78 years old, being awake for 17 hours was equivalent to having a blood-alcohol level of .05. After 24 hours, it increased to .10.
So, we NORMALLY work a 14 hour day, wake up an hour or so before our show time and then, after we check in the hotel, get dinner, take a shower, talk to the wife and watch a little t.v., you are almost (physically & mentally), legally drunk.
Kinda gives ya a nice, warm fuzzy feeling doesn't it. Maybe Starkey will send out a new ops bulletin limiting our duty times to 10 hours or less. OH, sorry, I think I am sleep deprived.
Here's the study below (partial):
After staying awake for 24 hours straight, a person will be about as impaired as if he had had enough alcohol to be legally drunk in most states, a study says.
Australian researchers tested 40 people to create a "blood alcohol equivalent'' for different levels of impairment from sleeplessness.
In one experiment, participants stayed awake for 28 hours.
In the other test, they drank alcohol every half hour until they reached a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10 percent. That's the drunken-driving standard in most American states.
Every half hour, the subjects took a computerized test of hand-eye coordination.
Results showed that after 24 hours of sleeplessness, participants were about as impaired as they were at the 0.10 percent level of blood alcohol. After 17 hours, they were about as impaired as they were with an alcohol level of 0.05 percent, which many Western countries define as legally drunk, the researchers said. The State of New Jersey has now made any injury crash involving fatigue, a felony.