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A nap is a period of sleep lasting between 20 minutes and 2 hours. It plays a fundamental role in reducing sleep insufficiency. After a normal night’s sleep, drowsiness has a peak in the middle of the afternoon and another peak at night. The period of least drowsiness is located between these two peaks. Napping early in the afternoon is a manifestation of the spontaneous two-phase character of sleep common to all individuals. The flight crew should alternate their rest and activities, including cockpit napping. If 2-pilot crew synchronize their activities along the flight, they tend to be active at the same moment and consequently to be tired at the same moment. Therefore, members of the flight crew are suggested to desynchronize their activities through alternating passive and active flight monitoring to avoid simultaneous decreases of their alertness. In the case of extreme sleepiness, an appropriate napping strategy should be adopted by each of them. Naps of around 20 minutes were taken during flight and planned in order not to disturb the regular flight progress; they had to be taken until one hour before descent at the latest. Studies have shown that: - pilots, while resting at their seats, can quickly obtain short sleep periods of good quality; - naps increase performance as assessed by reaction time tests; - pilots of the nap group had 5 times less drowsiness episodes than the control group, indicating the efficiency of these naps in maintaining alertness during flight.3. How should a 2-pilot crew group schedule their naps?
A nap is a period of sleep lasting between 20 minutes and 2 hours. It plays a fundamental role in reducing sleep insufficiency. After a normal night’s sleep, drowsiness has a peak in the middle of the afternoon and another peak at night. The period of least drowsiness is located between these two peaks. Napping early in the afternoon is a manifestation of the spontaneous two-phase character of sleep common to all individuals. The flight crew should alternate their rest and activities, including cockpit napping. If 2-pilot crew synchronize their activities along the flight, they tend to be active at the same moment and consequently to be tired at the same moment. Therefore, members of the flight crew are suggested to desynchronize their activities through alternating passive and active flight monitoring to avoid simultaneous decreases of their alertness. In the case of extreme sleepiness, an appropriate napping strategy should be adopted by each of them. Naps of around 20 minutes were taken during flight and planned in order not to disturb the regular flight progress; they had to be taken until one hour before descent at the latest. Studies have shown that: - pilots, while resting at their seats, can quickly obtain short sleep periods of good quality; - naps increase performance as assessed by reaction time tests; - pilots of the nap group had 5 times less drowsiness episodes than the control group, indicating the efficiency of these naps in maintaining alertness during flight.2. What is the appropriate attitude of pilots towards naps?
A nap is a period of sleep lasting between 20 minutes and 2 hours. It plays a fundamental role in reducing sleep insufficiency. After a normal night’s sleep, drowsiness has a peak in the middle of the afternoon and another peak at night. The period of least drowsiness is located between these two peaks. Napping early in the afternoon is a manifestation of the spontaneous two-phase character of sleep common to all individuals. The flight crew should alternate their rest and activities, including cockpit napping. If 2-pilot crew synchronize their activities along the flight, they tend to be active at the same moment and consequently to be tired at the same moment. Therefore, members of the flight crew are suggested to desynchronize their activities through alternating passive and active flight monitoring to avoid simultaneous decreases of their alertness. In the case of extreme sleepiness, an appropriate napping strategy should be adopted by each of them. Naps of around 20 minutes were taken during flight and planned in order not to disturb the regular flight progress; they had to be taken until one hour before descent at the latest. Studies have shown that: - pilots, while resting at their seats, can quickly obtain short sleep periods of good quality; - naps increase performance as assessed by reaction time tests; - pilots of the nap group had 5 times less drowsiness episodes than the control group, indicating the efficiency of these naps in maintaining alertness during flight.1. What does drowsiness in the first paragraph mean?
An MD80 was level at FL340 heading north, about to descend. The controller did not detect a converging eastbound B737 and, therefore, cleared the MD80 to descend to FL300. When the MD80 started its descent, a Short Term Conflict Alert was triggered. In the attempt to rectify the error, the controller instructed the MD80 to stop the descent. Under stress, he issued a confusing instruction for the B737 to turn. The pilot did not respond. At this point, both aircraft received a coordinate RA: The MD80 received a Climb RA that he followed correctly while advising the controller. The B737 pilot received a Descend RA, which was also complied with. As a result of the coordinated Climb and Descend RAs, the two aircraft passed each other with a vertical separation of 1400 feet and a horizontal separation of 0.6 nautical miles. A simulation undertaken later showed that the vertical separation would have been only 100 feet without these maneuvers. 5. What is the vertical separation of the two aircraft when they passed each other?
An MD80 was level at FL340 heading north, about to descend. The controller did not detect a converging eastbound B737 and, therefore, cleared the MD80 to descend to FL300. When the MD80 started its descent, a Short Term Conflict Alert was triggered. In the attempt to rectify the error, the controller instructed the MD80 to stop the descent. Under stress, he issued a confusing instruction for the B737 to turn. The pilot did not respond. At this point, both aircraft received a coordinate RA: The MD80 received a Climb RA that he followed correctly while advising the controller. The B737 pilot received a Descend RA, which was also complied with. As a result of the coordinated Climb and Descend RAs, the two aircraft passed each other with a vertical separation of 1400 feet and a horizontal separation of 0.6 nautical miles. A simulation undertaken later showed that the vertical separation would have been only 100 feet without these maneuvers. 4. What eventually prevented an air miss from happening?
An MD80 was level at FL340 heading north, about to descend. The controller did not detect a converging eastbound B737 and, therefore, cleared the MD80 to descend to FL300. When the MD80 started its descent, a Short Term Conflict Alert was triggered. In the attempt to rectify the error, the controller instructed the MD80 to stop the descent. Under stress, he issued a confusing instruction for the B737 to turn. The pilot did not respond. At this point, both aircraft received a coordinate RA: The MD80 received a Climb RA that he followed correctly while advising the controller. The B737 pilot received a Descend RA, which was also complied with. As a result of the coordinated Climb and Descend RAs, the two aircraft passed each other with a vertical separation of 1400 feet and a horizontal separation of 0.6 nautical miles. A simulation undertaken later showed that the vertical separation would have been only 100 feet without these maneuvers. 3. Who or what is responsible for the occurrence of the incident?
An MD80 was level at FL340 heading north, about to descend. The controller did not detect a converging eastbound B737 and, therefore, cleared the MD80 to descend to FL300. When the MD80 started its descent, a Short Term Conflict Alert was triggered. In the attempt to rectify the error, the controller instructed the MD80 to stop the descent. Under stress, he issued a confusing instruction for the B737 to turn. The pilot did not respond. At this point, both aircraft received a coordinate RA: The MD80 received a Climb RA that he followed correctly while advising the controller. The B737 pilot received a Descend RA, which was also complied with. As a result of the coordinated Climb and Descend RAs, the two aircraft passed each other with a vertical separation of 1400 feet and a horizontal separation of 0.6 nautical miles. A simulation undertaken later showed that the vertical separation would have been only 100 feet without these maneuvers. 2. From the perspective of the MD80 pilot, what is the position of conflicting traffic?
An MD80 was level at FL340 heading north, about to descend. The controller did not detect a converging eastbound B737 and, therefore, cleared the MD80 to descend to FL300. When the MD80 started its descent, a Short Term Conflict Alert was triggered. In the attempt to rectify the error, the controller instructed the MD80 to stop the descent. Under stress, he issued a confusing instruction for the B737 to turn. The pilot did not respond. At this point, both aircraft received a coordinate RA: The MD80 received a Climb RA that he followed correctly while advising the controller. The B737 pilot received a Descend RA, which was also complied with. As a result of the coordinated Climb and Descend RAs, the two aircraft passed each other with a vertical separation of 1400 feet and a horizontal separation of 0.6 nautical miles. A simulation undertaken later showed that the vertical separation would have been only 100 feet without these maneuvers. 1. What is the nature of the incident?
On arrival at a major UK airport, we entered a hold at FL150 with 30 minutes delay due to strong winds. We stepped down in the hold pattern by approximately 1000 feet each hold, i.e. 150, 140, 130, 120, 110, 100, 90. We were transferred to the Director at around FL100. The next clearance was understood as DESCEND FL80, which was our next lower level. At or near FL80, ATC asked if we had TURNED to heading 080. Need I describe the dreadful feeling? Mortified! I apologized on the R/T. ATC responded, No problem, gave updated heading and clearance for further descent. However, that airport is not the place to be at the wrong level and heading on a busy and rough Sunday night! Having given the incident much thought in the days following the incident, I believe that a major contributing factor was the expectation, quite reasonably in a sense, of further descent to FL80 and hearing what we thought we should hear, thus confusing heading with cleared level. As vulnerable as one can be on a new type, it could have happened on my previous type (23 years, 13,000 hours). In addition, I had a good first officer. 5. What was the result of the incident?
On arrival at a major UK airport, we entered a hold at FL150 with 30 minutes delay due to strong winds. We stepped down in the hold pattern by approximately 1000 feet each hold, i.e. 150, 140, 130, 120, 110, 100, 90. We were transferred to the Director at around FL100. The next clearance was understood as DESCEND FL80, which was our next lower level. At or near FL80, ATC asked if we had TURNED to heading 080. Need I describe the dreadful feeling? Mortified! I apologized on the R/T. ATC responded, No problem, gave updated heading and clearance for further descent. However, that airport is not the place to be at the wrong level and heading on a busy and rough Sunday night! Having given the incident much thought in the days following the incident, I believe that a major contributing factor was the expectation, quite reasonably in a sense, of further descent to FL80 and hearing what we thought we should hear, thus confusing heading with cleared level. As vulnerable as one can be on a new type, it could have happened on my previous type (23 years, 13,000 hours). In addition, I had a good first officer. 4. What is an important cause of the incident?
