come on guys!
For those not used to six legs, first leg 0500 and last flight arrival 2330, six days on two off - or ULR flights, 15 hours in a tube with 5 hours "rest" in a coffin somewhere between toilets and galleys, starting at 0200 and getting 20 hours off and having to sleep during daytime when the roomservice bangs their hoovers on your door and comes in even with "do-not-disturb" hung out to check the mini bar, just to have a nice night 9 hour subcontinental turnaraound the next day ....
For those not used to it this incident might sound strange or foul....
For us it does not. How many times did one of us fall asleep as the other takes a power nap?? How many times do you shreck-up after a microsleep on the ILS after a empty quarter 200km vectoring in the sandpit??
With the kind of managers at the helm today it is no longer an incident, but a consequence. No one wants to hear anything about fatigue and when they do, they hand it over to a quarterpounded medical from dubious origin in their very own medical facility (after scaring the living daylight out of the first such poor guy filing a report asking for more rest) plus they come up with the eternal "....we will look into it" and give the scam over to a surveying commitee with as much field experience and competence as Doubleyou.
We are alone to cope with it and to bear any consequence of this cynism.
