Looking at some who've tried it - and not very successfully - you'll take ten years off your life if not kill yourself, and if you were unlucky enough to be involved in an incident that could be even remotely blamed on fatigue, (which 99.9% of Dubai-resident EK pilots will readily admit to suffering to some degee at the best of times), you'd quickly discover that the proverbial ice upon which you were standing was about as thin as you'd imagine any ice to be in downtown Dubai in mid July.