Human Factors, Threat Analysis
Common-sense recognition of everyday threats and self-auditing are first steps to making effective changes.
Although we grew up learning fatigue risk management, we likely didn’t realize this was what we were being taught by our teachers and parents. Our earliest teachers taught us that after lunch, we took a nap so that we would be alert afterward. Our parents used the same nap-time theory on us at home, and told us napping was so we would be ready to go outside to play. (In reality, our parents needed a break and were managing their fatigue.)
The COVID-19 pandemic is a new addition to the factors that can interfere with pilots’ rest, researchers say.
Simple rest schemes are helping pilots on long flights sleep longer and better, researchers say.
Aviation Research, News, pilot fatigue
Even with flight time limitations, commercial pilots, especially short-haul pilots, experience significant fatigue and related issues, researchers say.
