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Old 1st Feb 2009, 15:15
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Devil 49
"Just a pilot"
 
Join Date: May 2001
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Once again the Gummint has firmly closed the gate after the cows are long, long gone, and generate paperwork at the same time.

My opinion: Night accidents are a human factors issue. Until we scheduling and stop pretending that humans aren't affected by 180 in the wake sleep cycle, we'll kill aircrew. Insufficient, poor sleep and circadian disruption are known to degrade the reasoning process. Stupid pilots make bad decisions, launch without sufficient visual ability to 'see and avoid' weather, terrain, etc., and function poorly when the challenge occurs. NVGs help, but no not address the basic problem.
Nor does this bit of paperwork mumbo-jumbo.
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