Flying Tired
By: Joseph Corning
E-mail: racerjoe@hotmail.com
CHAPTER I
Introduction
Pilots today are working in a 24-hour a day industry. The potential for error when working during the night is higher than working during the day. Humans have an internal clock that prefers you sleep at night; so working at night is a valid safety issue. Pilots today should be considered as shift workers, their schedules can be from early morning one day until the …
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…FAA Office of Aviation Medicine Civil Aeromedical Institute Publications.
Staff. (1998, July-August). Overcoming Effects of Stress Offers Greatest Opportunity to Sleep Well. Flight Safety Foundations; Human Factors & Aviation Medicine. Vol. 45 No. 4
Internet References
Fatigue Countermeasures Group. (1998, July 6). NASA Ames Research Center. Retrieved November 1, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.olias.arc.nasa.gov/zteam
Sleep Strategies for Shift Workers. (1999, October). National Safety Foundation. Retrieved October 27, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/publications
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