88 Driver,
Setting aside your ALPA hystrionics, I see your point on CDO's.
Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
If you think that most pilots assigned CDO's are going to sleep 8 hours during the day in preparation then you are incredibly naive.
Let's say he's NOT 100% naive, for arguments sake, and some % of pilots dutifully goes "night-night" at the appropriate time, to show up well rested. Best case scenario, I'm guessing they modified their sleep pattern, what, two days prior? After all, even the best intentioned boy scout, with a merit badge in scientific sleeping, isn't going to wake up from a normal night the morning of the CDO, to have a full complement of "pre-sleep" before the CDO.
So where is the benefit? What's the point of gaining a couple more hours, when you have to choose between flying tired, and ruining your time off before AND after the CDO?