On earlies I'm in bed by 2030 and wake at 4am. Why go to bed at 2300?
Try life with a young family in a three bed semi.
2100 Kids get to sleep.
2120 I get my head down.
2225 Ten month old boy balls his head off due to teething.
2228 My exhausted wife gets up to calm him down.
2232 My three year old girl wakes with the commotion and wants a story read to her.
2237 I wake and get drafted in to calm things down.
2315 I get to sleep, fitfully.
0440 Alarm goes off.
0441 I leap out of bed, glance through the curtains and can't see the other side of the road due to thick fog . . .
To get round the above I have several options:
1. Ask the airline for a slack roster!
2. Find a bigger house in the south east of Tony Blairs !!!!ty Little Britain.
3. Go and work for another low cost carrier.
4. Live apart from my family when I am on the roster.
5. Campaign publicly for responsible FTL's.
6. Quit aviation, sell up and find another country.