Fatigue in aviation: safety risks, preventive strategies and pharmacological interventions

YQ Wingelaar-Jagt, TT Wingelaar, WJ Riedel… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Fatigue poses an important safety risk to civil and military aviation. In addition to decreasing
performance in-flight (chronic) fatigue has negative long-term health effects. Possible …

Cognitive impairments by alcohol and sleep deprivation indicate trait characteristics and a potential role for adenosine A1 receptors

EM Elmenhorst, D Elmenhorst… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Trait-like differences in cognitive performance after sleep loss put some individuals more at
risk than others, the basis of such disparities remaining largely unknown. Similarly …

Using Muse: Rapid mobile assessment of brain performance

OE Krigolson, MR Hammerstrom, W Abimbola… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The advent of mobile electroencephalography (mEEG) has created a means for large scale
collection of neural data thus affording a deeper insight into cognitive phenomena such as …

Fatiguing effect of multiple take-offs and landings in regional airline operations

KA Honn, BC Satterfield, P McCauley… - Accident Analysis & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Fatigue is a risk factor for flight performance and safety in commercial aviation. In US
commercial aviation, to help to curb fatigue, the maximum duration of flight duty periods is …

Sleep, alertness and alertness management among commercial airline pilots on short-haul and long-haul flights

M Sallinen, M Sihvola, S Puttonen, K Ketola… - Accident Analysis & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Airline pilots' sleep and on-duty alertness are important focus areas in commercial aviation.
Until now, studies pertaining to this topic have mainly focused on specific characteristics of …

Perspectives on fatigue in short-haul flight operations from US pilots: A focus group study

CJ Hilditch, KB Gregory, L Arsintescu, NG Bathurst… - Transport policy, 2023 - Elsevier
There are few studies investigating the impact of fatigue in short-haul flight operations
conducted under United States (US) 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 117 flight and …

Subjective health complaints, work-related stress and self-efficacy in Norwegian aircrew

ML Omholt, TH Tveito, C Ihlebæk - Occupational Medicine, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The European civilian aviation industry has undergone major changes
in the last decade. Despite this, there is little knowledge about work-related stress and …

Effects of total sleep deprivation on performance in a manual spacecraft docking task

S Piechowski, LJ Kalkoffen, S Benderoth, OT Wolf… - npj …, 2024 - nature.com
Sleep deprivation and circadian rhythm disruptions are highly prevalent in shift workers, and
also among astronauts. Resulting sleepiness can reduce cognitive performance, lead to …

The relationship between workload, performance and fatigue in a short-haul airline

L Arsintescu, R Chachad, KB Gregory… - Chronobiology …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between pilot workload,
performance, subjective fatigue, sleep duration, number of sectors and flight duration during …

Spontaneous attentional failures reflect multiplicative interactions of chronic sleep loss with acute sleep loss and circadian misalignment

D Aeschbach, DA Cohen, BJ Lockyer, SL Chellappa… - Sleep Health, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives Acute and chronic sleep loss and circadian timing interact such that, depending
on their combination, small or very large performance decrements are observed in tasks of …