BT: Base-time, LT: Local-time, AC: Augmented Crew,
W: Westward, L: layover, R: Rotation
Recommendation
code
Main characteristics
of the rotation
Recommendations code:
- Outbound flight: Departure from home at 8h30 (BT): AC1 (table 1)
- Layover: Arrival to the hotel at 0h 30 (BT): WL5 (table 2)
- Return flight: after longer layover, two kinds of recommendation, AC3 and AC1, are presented for the return flight according to the extent to wish you adjust to local-time:
– If your score on the LAAQ suggests that your body clock is largely on base-time (score between 6 and 17), use base-time departure from the hotel (18h) to follow the recommendation for your return flight (AC3, table 1),
– If your score on the LAAQ suggests that you have adjusted to local time (score between 25 and 36), use local-time departure from the hotel (10h) to follow the recommendation for your return flight (AC1, table 1).
– If your score on the LAAQ suggests that your body clock has started to adjust to local-time, but has not fully done so (score between 18 and 24), you will have to decide whether to use local or base-time when following the recommendations for your return flight. In other words, you will have to take account of your subjective feeling to decide if you feel that your body clock is adjusted to local-time or not.
The examples given below contain the following information:
- Identifier concerning: geographical zone / crew composition / number of nights during the layover (except for NSR) / number of time zones crossed,
- main flight characteristics and the corresponding recommendations code:
– outbound flight: departure time from home / flight departure time (in base-time),
– time zone
– layover: arrival time (in base and local-time) / number of local nights,
– return flight: departure time from hotel / flight departure time (in base and local-time),
- a schematic illustration of these recommendations:
– habitual sleep time at home (“sleep gates”),
– recommendations for layover sleep,
– recommendations for exposure to daylight, for longer layover only,
– recommendations for meals and snacks.
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