By: Joseph Corning E-mail: racerjoe@hotmail.com CHAPTER I Introduction Pilots today are working in a 24-hour a day industry. The potential for error when working during the night is higher than working during the day. Humans have an internal clock that prefers you sleep at night; so working at night is a valid safety issue. Pilots today should be considered as shift workers, their schedules can be from early morning one day until the …showed first 75 words of 2818 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2818 total…FAA Office of Aviation Medicine Civil Aeromedical Institute Publications. Staff. (1998, July-August). Overcoming Effects of Stress Offers Greatest Opportunity to Sleep Well. Flight Safety Foundations; Human Factors & Aviation Medicine. Vol. 45 No. 4 Internet References Fatigue Countermeasures Group. (1998, July 6). NASA Ames Research Center. Retrieved November 1, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.olias.arc.nasa.gov/zteam Sleep Strategies for Shift Workers. (1999, October). National Safety Foundation. Retrieved October 27, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/publications