Originally Posted by
JW411
Retired BA/BY:
"Balanced/informed debate".
"You may have been fatigued BUT do you have any experience of long, often night, flights with big time changes and your circadian rythm shot to pieces."
"My worst, LHR to NBO, via CDG........."
Can you just remind us what the time shift is between London and Nairobi. My experience was that north/south was easy but east/west could just be a bit more difficult.
North/south isn't 'easy' because the time zone shift is minor. In the U.S. the departures are frequently at 1900-0000 and you fly all night arriving the next morning. The pickup the following evening is around 1900 and you land back in the U.S. around 0500-0600. I've got more pictures of relief pilots falling asleep on Deep South flights than I do from any other type of flying. Most of us doing the flying think the Deep South flying is harder than the 'tough' east/west flying you mentioned.