Two-crew operations: Stress and fatigue during long-haul night flights

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 679-687

  Samel, Alexander ^a   Wegmann, Hans Martin ^a   Vejvoda, Martin ^a   Drescher, Jürgen ^a   Gundel, Alexander ^a   Manzey, Dietrich ^a   Wenzel, Jürgen ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; FATIGUE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NIGHT WORK; NORMAL HUMAN; STRESS; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AVIATION; FATIGUE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030800360     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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