I hate them. The kind we do here at Alaska are the worst. It's bad enough flying West to East but pure West coast all nighters are worse. If you fly from West to East you typically take off around 10pm and land at 3am (West coast time). Now 3am is bad, but it is really just a late night. We've all done it. The problem with our ANC or FAI all nighters is we land at 6am local time.

We take off around 9pm land in ANC at 12:30am, CHANGE AIRCRAFT after a 2 hour break, take off at 2:30am and land at 6am. Brutal! The hours between 3am and 5am are the worst. You are cruising above the West coast of Alaska/Canada, it is very dark (nothing on the ground), it is very quiet on the radio, and it is very easy to fall asleep. I can only do one of these. Then I need 2 days to recover.

They are truly for a special breed.