Significance of time awake for predicting pilots' fatigue on short-haul flights: Implications for flight duty time regulations

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 564-567

  Vejvoda, Martin ^a   Elmenhorst, Eva Maria ^a   Pennig, Sibylle ^a   Plath, Gernot ^a   Maass, Hartmut ^a   Tritschler, Kristjof ^b   Basner, Mathias ^c   Aeschbach, Daniel ^a,d  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Germanwings   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cockpit crew; Duty duration; Early starts; Hazard; Late finishes; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; WAKEFULNESS; AIRCRAFT; ATTENTION; AVIATION; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTIGRAPHY; ADULT; AIR TRAVEL; AIRCRAFT; ATTENTION; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908893349     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12186     Document Type: Article

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