Fatigue in Short-Haul Operations
Status unconfirmed
Conditions studied: Fatigue
In brief
The purpose of the present study is to assess fatigue levels of short-haul pilots during normal operations. The investigators will collect objective and subjective sleep, sleepiness, workload, and performance data from on-duty pilots during short-haul flight operations. Data will be collected during days off prior to the trip start, during flights, and during days off following the flight operations.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05524441
- Run by
- Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
- People needed
- 204
- Starts
- 2022-08-31
- Expected to finish
- 2025-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-11-15
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All medically qualified, active-duty pilots currently flying short-haul operations are eligible to be included as participants in the study. Participants must be line pilots that spend at least 50% of their typical monthly schedule flying short-haul operations (defined at flights under 6 hours duration).
- Participants must be scheduled for and willing to collect data on each of the following:
- Trip with Circadian Disruption. A trip containing one of the following types of WOCL infringement:
- Overnight FDPs. An FDP in which the pilot is operating one or more flights through the WOCL (0200-0559h) relative to the pilot's home-base time or clock time.
- OR
- Circadian Switching. At least one FDP that starts between 0000-0659h relative to home-base time, followed by at least one FDP that ends between 0000-0659h, or vice versa, within the same trip (e.g., an FDP that begins at 0500h and the next FDP ends at 0100h or vice versa).
- AND
- Trip without Circadian Disruption. This trip must not contain any duties that are scheduled to begin or end between 0000h and 0659h relative to home-base time.
You may not qualify if…
- No additional exclusion criteria
Where it is running
- NASA Ames Research Center — Mountain View, California, United States (enrolling)
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