Originally Posted by q1W2e3R4t5
who said anything about driving for 2 hours there and then home again? some people can still have a drive of 30 mins or so to work.
Must fill you in then on a great feature of English motorways. They are called Services. They are littered up and down and provide some valuable rest on a long car journey. Maybe you'd prefer to drive non stop somewhere and crank the window down a touch before you nod off. Do you carry a lucozade bottle in the glove box incase nature calls too?
Well, I've just used a small bit of deduction and logic to work out that if you are based in Belfast and you often see people driving from other bases, then for crews based elsewhere, the nearest other base is over 2 hours away. Not rocket science.
What motorway services have got to do with aircrew fatigue I have no idea. You don't seem to be able to grasp the basic fundamentals of what I'm saying.
Whatever your thoughts, might I suggest you read a little document called CAP371, of course you aren't bound by it as you work for an Irish company and it is an advisory document for the rest of us as our own FTL manual takes precedence. See what it says about positioning before a duty. Note the word BEFORE.
Driving to your normal base is one thing, driving to another completely different. Let me guess, you don't sign on for work until you reach the other base either...
I used to be based 360 miles from where I lived, so I'm used to this issue. It is easily manageable by making sure you have somewhere to stay that isn't your car. Hard to do when you are being shuttled around the country from one day to the next.
Having learnt my trade on aircraft that didn't have toilets fitted, then I recommend you carry a bottle a bit bigger than a 500ml lucozade one.
If you can't work out the potential fatigue issues with this, then may I humbly suggest you try. Fatigue is a killer, end of story. I know more than one person who has ended up upside down in the central reservation of the M1 on the drive home from another base. After a punishing duty.
It ain't big and it certainly isn't clever. Or does fatigue not affect people who work for RYR?