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Old 23rd Feb 2008, 22:53
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JW411
 
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With reference to the posting by MungoP:

In many, many years of flying longhaul with a crew of, at least, 3 on the flightdeck, I never had a problem.

On shorthaul flying at night, I have had two quite surprising events.

On the first one, the F/O (as PNF) called "Outer Marker" on finals. The next call should have been "500 feet" but it didn't come for he had "nodded-off"!

The second event was during an SID from a large European airfield at night. The F/O was PF and when the SID called for a 90° left turn and it didn't happen, I quickly discovered that he had nodded-off as well!

I have often wondered if some of our colleagues make as much use of rest time as they should do.
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