B Sousa: I dont think its my inmagination that makes my knees hit the seat in front. As to the pitch you may be correct as they all seem not to go back far. "Buckets of Sleep"...Are you Six foot or over??
No, I agree that's a physical limit and I didn't say
all. But the intensely anxious stress-filled fidgeting that many infrequent long-haul pax seem to suffer from is much more psychological than physical. It's also a very large part of what stops people from sleeping.
I'm not quite 6 foot - a little over 5'11". But on average I will get 13-14 hours' sleep between London and Sydney (in an economy class seat) and I did once manage 18 - although the penalty for that was that I was very hungry by the time I got off the plane in Sydney. It helps that I have been doing this sort of flying regularly since I was 12 - well over a quarter of a century ago.