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Old 28th Mar 2009, 17:01
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skridlov
 
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"Now, let's look at airline scheduling.Backside of the clock, disregard for WOCL cycles and fatigue induced scheduling that studies have shown, using scientifically developed data on sleep cycles, regualry produce levels of fatigue in pilots EQUAL to a blood alcohol level of .24%!"

SLF only commenting but fairly well-informed about the behavioural aspects of alcohol consumption.

Interesting post about the performance-depleting impact of some (legal) duty-cycles. If these have such a negative effect on performance, what happens when you add ANY alcohol to the bloodstream an individual thereby affected?

To me this is an observation that reinforces the need for aircrew to treat alcohol with even more caution than the legal minima.
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