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weather is crap or that it’s 11 p.m. and you’re falling asleep. It also doesn’t know that you overflew your destination during the power nap. If you become fatigued, rest. If you don’t, risks increase exponentially, and bad things can happen. To survive among carnivorous predators, the early hominids learned that stupid is, as stupid does. Fatigue can put you into an altered state of consciousness like one induced by sensory deprivation and revert you to a blabbering Neanderthal. Don’t fly fatigued and be the one that gets eaten.
Authors note: An acknowledging head-nod (from me and the attorneys) to Ken Russell’s 1980 sensory depriva- tion film, Altered States, starring William Hurt, as well as the one-hit-wonder by A-Ha that it inspired: Take on Me. Also, to Tom Hanks in Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump and the Beatles for 1964’s Hard Day’s Night.
Kevin Dingman has been flying for more than 40 years. He’s an ATP typed in the B737, DC9 and CE-650 with 25,000 hours in his logbook. A retired Air Force major, he flew the F-16 and later performed as an USAF Civil Air Patrol Liaison Officer. He flies volunteer missions for the Christian organi- zation Wings of Mercy, is retired from a major airline, flies the Cessna Citation for RAI Jets, and owns and operates a Beechcraft Duke.Contact Kevin at dinger10d@gmail.com.
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