The choice of recommendations will of course have to be adapted to the circumstances. Partial reliance on these recommendations is therefore also acceptable.
To help the reader we should refer to two synonyms regularly used:
– alertness for level of arousal or wakefulness
– jet-lag effects for circadian desynchronosis.
This guidebook consists of three parts:
A brief summary of research conducted by LAA-GERPA of the René Descartes University (Paris V) in cooperation with AIRBUS on alertness and sleep with long-haul flight crews,
Practical cards concerning:
– pre-flight rest and flights,
– layover rest for westward eastward and north-south flights.
Short summaries concerning alertness levels, alertness decrement, sleep, jet-lag effects, etc.
Summaries are provided to help with adapting or customizing recommendations, keeping all personal or cultural sleeping habits and social rhythms in mind. They can be used as a basis for adapting recommendations to cope with extreme cases, as for example, very early departures and/or very short layovers (cargo flights).
The preventive aspect of these practical suggestions must be emphasized. Their validity is not only based on most recent scientific knowledge but, above all, they reflect experimental validations conducted with long-haul technical crews.
Better sleep management through knowledge of one’s own biological rhythms is a genuine personal undertaking. Once committed to, it should rapidly improve general well-being in one’s professional activities and extra-professional life.
This approach provides a real contribution to improve health for air crew and air transport safety.
North American Flights on DC-10-30 at UTA in 1990
Delivery Flights to Northwest on A320 in 1991
Taking handwritten flight logs at Sabena in 1990
Aircrew Data Logging with laptop computer at Air France in 1993
2. DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING RECOMMENDATIONS: MAIN RESULTS
2.1. Objective measurement campaigns.......................................24
2.1.1. Alertness levels and decrements in long-haul technical crews..............24
2.1.2. Layover sleep duration and quality......................................................25
2.1.3. Duration and quality of in-flight sleep with augmented crews...............25
2.2. Developing recommendations..............................................26
2.3. Validating recommendations................................................27
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