Controlled Crew Rest Proceedure
We have an authorised proceedure for mitigating the huge fatigue involved in this job, called controlled crew rest. But how dare you expect to have pillows to enable you to take this mitigation if the flight is full!!
We should have two pillows and blankets provided on the flight deck for this procedure so that controlled crew rest can be adequately utilised regardless of whether the flight is full or empty.
Surely the GCAA approval of variations must have taken into consideration the use of this proceedure to allow these extremes of duty times for two crew operations!
I've always thought that it must look dreadful to any passengers who observe the flight attendants taking an armful of pillows and blankets to the flight deck. I am sure they'd be mortified to think that the crew are sleeping up the front! Best to avoid this by having these items on the flight deck before passengers board the aircraft, imho.
Last edited by kiwi; 3rd Apr 2010 at 16:44.