Originally Posted by
johnso29
And the thousands of other weekly flights that occur without accident or incident? I suppose they've just been lucky for all of these years?
Yes. Lucky to this day. When NASA did the study on planned naps in the cockpit, they found that planned naps reduced the number of "micronaps" experienced by pilots from hundreds to a few dozen. Even with planned naps however, many of the micronaps were experienced low to the ground on approach.
We're asking pilots to do things that the human body simply cannot do without involuntarily shutting down from seconds to minutes. Making excuses for it is idiocy.
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Carl