I don't know where this poll leads to (to blame or not to blame the "offenders"), but the questions are put in a way to compromise our cockpit work.
Let me state this:
Whoever it is (pilot or management), you always make mistakes, that's why we forget checklist (or part of it), innocense pilots get punished and guilty ones get away.
Scientific researches show that pilots who are relaxed and rested are better performing in stress situation. That's why power nap is to be prefered (max 20 min), people should do other things in calm periods, like going to the toilet, chat with the cabin/passengers, eating in the cabin, moving around, reading. I remember a Swedish research where they put two groups of pilots in the cockpit, one group was only allowed to stare at the instruments, the other could read the newspapers. The second group did much better of course.
Dani
[edited for grammar...]
Last edited by Dani; 30th June 2006 at 14:10.