CapnVegetto
The Prince of all Saiyans
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It is not the scheduled flying that is so bad, but the unscheduled. Also it is not the first trip that gets you. It is the follow up trips, where you never really rest during your rest period because it is during your normal waking time. Two or three days of this and anyone is a basket case. The European's have a pretty rest policy, but you need more crews to do the same work. BTW Of course we woulld never allow sleeping in the cockpit which has shown to be the best at fighting fatique as some countries do
Right about the scheduled.....if you know about a trip ahead of time, and can sleep and prepare for it, it sucks but it's not so bad. But you are wrong.....the first one DOES get you. Most people's bodies has a set pattern.....sleep at night up during the day, period. You spend 30 or 40 years doing that 96% of the time, then all of a sudden you are asked to stay up all night and be alert when your body is saying 'no, it's time to sleep', you have a problem. Of course, most 135 operators don't give a ********************. If you try to say you're fatigued, they say "well, it's legal so go fly". If something happens on the flight they'll whine and cry about 'Ohhhhh!! He should have TOLD us he was fatigued!!!! We wouldn't have had him fly!!!!" Yeah.....right. Bite me.
This is a serious problem that has been needing to be addressed for a long time. Of course, all the 135 operators bitch and moan "ohhhh!! we'll go out of business!!!! we'll have to hire more pilots!!!!" Tough ********************ing ********************. Then hire more and stop bitching. It's called the cost of doing business. Either deal with it or find another business.