It's certainly not a lot of beauty sleep, and I need all the beauty I can get.

I'm assuming a few things in order to get my thumbs up....they would have to be stand-alone (i.e not as part of a 4 day trip). I'm assuming one leg in and one leg out (then you do the hokey-pokey and turn yourself about). You'd have to be very selective with the hotels for quick access, as well (I'm thinking like DTW Westin)

...as everyone has said, the details are important to see before I'd give a YES, but I'm not willing to declare Split Duty unsafe when we do so many other types of 'wee hour' flying safely. Because we have several posters here who seem to flip-flop on the safety issue with the following reasoning :

A) Split Duty Ops that infringe on WOCL are completely and utterly unsafe.


B) International flying that infringes on the WOCL is safe because
.1 We've always done it
.2 Marketing needs it
.3 ER pilots will be more responsible than narrowbody pilots and get more sleep.