For those of you who don't do them with regularity, a day to the Canaries from Scotland or the North of the UK is significantly longer duty hours and more flying time than an East Coast sector. It involves probably a 4am alarm, nearly 5 hours sat on your backside, sometimes sporty Canaries approach, all of a sudden, rapid turnaround on the ground, then 5 hours home. If it's your first day on earlies as someone else mentioned you are probably bushed as you didn't sleep that well. Do TCX have a controlled rest policy? If not, did either crew member have a nap in flight anyway?
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With his experience this flight should be bread and butter to a Charter Pilot.
Controlled rest - difficult in a B757 as the seat isn't made for it, headrest lack of.
The airline I work for puts it's new Commanders (upgrade) into a B757 and takes them up and fly go rounds from low decision height - I guess they have learned something