Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Well......if it happens, it happens for a reason. What would your solution be in this instance?
Normally cabin crew are required to contact the flight deck every 20 mins or so, in person or via the inter-phone, to check all is well.
I am wondering if something bad is happening to crew training now, as well as fatiguing rosters?
On quiet long-haul flights, if I wasn't reading something or doing the crossword, I would listen to Radio 4 on the ADF receiver, which helped keep me alert. Important to be doing something - in the absence of inputs a tired brain will tend to go to sleep.
In all my 27000 hours I have never even come close to putting 300 tonnes or the lives of 300 pax in jeopardy by falling asleep
FLY THE AIRCRAFT is the first thing you learn when training and if you can't do that then you should not be up the front.