Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
The short answer is that the DAL way of doing things has the guys taking breaks every two hours or so.
Source please. The reason I ask is that I know of no policy as to how the breaks are to be conducted. That being said, I have flown several trips recently with north crews, and I will say this: The idea of one FO doing the takeoff and the other doing the landing is a good one. I think that should be adopted. However the idea of the captain ALWAYS getting his choice of break (hence the middle one) is retarded. That means the landing FO would either be wiping sleep out of his eyes on approach or he would have been up for 4-6 hours before landing in the middle of the night. Just my 2 cents.