Originally Posted by
DROPS
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications.../ao-2022-065-1
This has to be a joke?
IIRC this was a nightly occurrence after the geniuses decided to go to one person night shifts many years ago. It was only the snoring that kept the people actually working the traffic awake!
Wow. Just wow. But was he actually handling traffic at the time, or had he handed off anything in his assigned sectors to adjacent controllers before shift change and with nothing under his jurisdiction, had a catnap? But still...
I have the alerter/vigilance system on the train to make sure
I stay awake. Long haul crew now have the EICAS "CREW RESPONSE" trigger to keep
them awake - but what does the bloke on the other end of the radio have?
No Minesweeper or Solitaire on TAAATS? But it does have a screensaver, thank goodness!