Originally Posted by
hunterboy
Why can’t you live in ZA and be based at LHR? Next you will be telling us you can’t live in LA and be based in JFK. At least the ZA commuter arrives at work acclimatized. I think that speaks volumes more than the focus on alcohol and flying.
This is why:
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/n...n/14pilot.html
Members of the board said that the crew of the twin-engine turboprop that crashed, killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground, was set up for fatigue and inattention before they even took off, partly because of the structure of the commuter airline business.
In the crash, the first officer, Rebecca L. Shaw, 24, a Colgan employee for about a year, apparently pulled an all-nighter to get a free transcontinental trip to work. She was living near Seattle and commuting to her job at Colgan’s operation in Newark, according to board investigators. She flew from Seattle to Memphis in a spare seat on one FedEx jet, and to Newark on another, planning to sleep in a crew lounge, investigators said.
As flight crew you have a duty of care to be the best you possibly can be given the cards you are drawn and to arrive at work as rested and alert as possible. The schedules that you work to are stressful, fatiguing and in some cases insane, depending on who you work for, I acknowledge that. But don't make it worse than it needs to be.