Originally Posted by
vilas
Better scheduling, more rest before flight and less hours every week/month/year will help but till it happens some threat mitigation survival techniques need to be deviced. Fatigue should be included in briefing as a threat. Like many suggesting cabin crew periodic check, hot towel/ cold towel, more caffeine may be or when it's worse a Modafinil tablet. It's suggested to combat pilots so couldn't be a psychotropic substance. Better check it. I used it on a nine hours drive starting early morning and it did help. May be they knew all this but missed out. If not, good to start now.
Modafinil indeed does what it says on the tin but routine use could come back to bite you if anything bad happens, unless you're one of those combat pilots. I can see the Daily Mail headline now: something something Flying High...