Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
I am the "power that be" that moved and combined all the controller sleeping threads into the appropriate SAFETY forum.
To answer the question that Eastern already answered, yes, I spent about 10 years of my adult life working a day shift, and then coming in that night for the mid, with exactly 8 hours rest.
On Labor Day, 2006, the agency removed all music radios from the workspace. To be honest, it helped to keep awake on the mid.
Have I fallen asleep? Heck ya. Anybody who says they NEVER fell asleep is a liar or a freak.
Oxygen and coffee. Avoid redeyes and early east coast "shows" on a west coast body clock. I personally think the early east coast shows are more difficult then the vaunted redeyes! Stupid people are running this industry and morons are regulating life and death.