Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
One leg (about an hour or less each way
) out to the layover and one leg back would be a nice start. Cnx with pay for weather or snow events. I won't hold my breath on either one.
I guess the reason for my question is two fold. One, just curious if you have some specific changes you think might really help to mitigate fatigue. Two is based on your own admission that domestically you can't sleep longer than 5 hours during the day. Short of paying you to stay home or getting another pilot to fly half your schedule, I'm not sure what sort of scheduling improvements are going to mitigate your fatigue if you can't sleep in the first place. Flying(working) between ~2200 and ~0700 is unnatural and there's only so much that can be done via work rules to make it manageable. The biggest factor is really good sleep. If you can't get adequate rest during the day on your layover, relying on a recliner nap for a couple of hours during the sort is going to take its toll no matter what your contract says.
Perhaps then the contract can ensure the schedules allow guys to get adequate rest during the day and/or rely on sort periods and sleep rooms to meaningfully compensate for a lack thereof. I'll let guys who regularly fly night domestic to comment on that aspect, perhaps on another thread where the focus is on that subject. But even with my limited exposure to them I have more than a few ideas on how to ameliorate the experience without simply removing myself from the problem as you have proposed. My comment was aimed more at the general disregard for circadian rhythms and to suggest to the OP that even though the schedules are currently fatiguing they could be improved.
Brown has pay protections and lots of one- in-one-out pairings.