My M.E. airline luckily allows 'controlled rest' and I use it a lot. Sometimes a guy is so tired just after airborne and ask if he can sleep almost the whole sector. (<2hrs) Fine with me as long as I feel great and the c/c is informed and does their regular checkups. Weird as it may be, but whenever the other guy does a power nap my tiredness completely disappears. I think its because subconciously you become hyper aware of the risk and concequences of you falling asleep as well. Chilling thought...!
We usually take turns and decide quit early on who sleeps on which sector. I never sleep more then 30 min. I do set my alarm and use the aircrafts clock timer to check how long I've actually been asleep and so far I have not slept upto the alarm going off. After that it's time for a coffee, newspaper and I am awake for the descent. (Flts <7hrs)
Last edited by John21UK; 9th Nov 2012 at 08:58.