Jet Lag And Its Effect On Pilot Performance

Being well rested goes a long way in athletics. There are so many benefits to being well rested especially in a situation where the athlete is traveling one or more time zones. Having a good night sleep beforehand will help the athlete acclimate because it will aide in getting used to their new sleep schedule. Arriving at the desired location early enough to acclimate will also help with this. Additionally, it will give the athletes a better sense of the environment and the new time zone they are in. The more time they are in the new time zone, the more they will get used to it and see it as

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By analysing Michaels symptoms, its apparent he suffers from DSPD. The disorder is diagnosed to individuals that has a delayed sleep pattern by 2 or more hours compared to non-sufferers of DPSD (Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, Leon C.Lack et al, 2009). Our biological clock goes through a cycle on a daily basis, in which chemicals and hormones are produced to control our body's function. This is also known as circadian rhythm (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, Australian Sleep Association). Its responsible for an individual to feel drowsy at night time. This results in the sufferer staying up for the majority of the night and having a difficulty falling asleep at a reasonable time to meet their daily schedules such as work and school. Due to morning

Prepare for the time zone difference. You might say “it’s only a 3-hour difference” and you’d be right: it’s barely enough of a time difference to trigger jetlag in bicoastal folks. But once you’re settled in to your West Coast home, you’ll start

Where you go can influence how your trip will be. If you go to an amusement park, such as Disneyland, you should expect to have some enhancement of stress due to lines, prices, or poor weather. However, if you are one of the individuals that get all sun and no lines, then you might enjoy yourselves. If you are traveling to a relative’s house or town, you may feel more relaxed if you like said relatives. However, if you have too many relatives or don’t like said relatives, you may become even more stressed than before you left. If you travel to another state or outside the country you are more likely to be relaxed if you go to your native language speaking country or region. My family has traveled outside of our home multiple times before, and we have even lived in a whole other continent, with different cultures and scenes, in Singapore. From Singapore, you have a wider range of places to go for cheaper than in the United States. My favorite places to travel have been New Zealand and the Philippines so far. When my family travels for fun, most of the time we end up enjoying ourselves if it’s planned well. The major problem with traveling outside of the country, and even states, is the time difference. Jetlag, or time difference, is when your body is accustomed to your home’s time zone and when you travel and there is a time difference your body does not adjust for what experts say one day for every hour difference. Compared to Texas the Philippines has a fourteen hour time difference, and New Zealand has a nineteen hour time difference. Jetlag can also affect your overall enjoyment of a family vacation because you have to be awake and not irritable in order to have fun. On the other hand, vacationing is not about where you go, but who you go with.

In all honesty, what keeps me up at night are mosquitos and my cat. But an essay on mosquitos and how I despise them wouldn’t be suitable or appropriate here. However, there are other issues that concern me; some mundane, some in a global context.

During spaceflight astronauts will experience fatigue that can threaten their health and performance during their period of exploration. If fatigue during space flight goes untreated, there is a potential long-term health effects. The term fatigue can be explained as weariness from bodily or mental exertion and temporary reduction of functioning organs due to excessive stimulus. Astronauts are prone to other risk during spaceflight as well, these are the following: sleep loss, circadian desynchronization, fatigue, and workload are all potential risk astronauts can encounter during flight. Due to the enormous amount of stress, work, isolation, and confinement, research must be done to improve the astronauts’ stay in space in

 Jet Lag: internal biological clocks collide with external clocks as a result of moving across several time zones.

Planes have always been fascinating to me. I wasn’t one of those little boys that liked the toy cars or the trains. Instead, I would rather have a toy plane. Since I was little until now, my mom and I have always used airplanes as our mode of transportation when taking long trips. It was that journey that sparked my interest in planes. In this paper, I am going to explain why I have always wanted to be a pilot and why I want to work for Delta Airlines.

According to Woody (2017) when talking about the shortage of pilots in the Air Force the Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said “ We are in a crisis. If we don’t find a way to turn this around, our ability to defend the nation is compromised.” According to Pawlyk (2017) the Secretary of the Air Force, Heather Wilson, the Air Force is in need of 2,000 pilots. This is a very large shortage because the Air Force only has about 20,000 pilots total so that is a relatively large shortfall. That means that the Air Force needs 10% more pilots than they currently have. That means there is a huge shortage in pilots and there are multiple things causing this issue.

The Right Time to Fly is a short story written by Shirley Golden. Some people are stuck in life without even realizing it. Events through our lives influences our personality and contributes to shaping us and making us who we are today. Some events may be so traumatizing that they block the self growth and a person may feel stuck in life without an meaning to it. There is a difference between surviving and living. Luckily for Marcus he meets Suzy which makes a change in his perspective on life and as it helps him moving on.

Yawning and still feeling sleep deprived despite having just woken up from a nap, I always forget how exhausting these long haul flights can be. Although I adore these summer flights flying back and forth between Vancouver and Japan, it takes a toll on my body. Squirming my way through the aisles, hopping over loose legs and skimming past lolling heads, I make my way back to the front of the plane. Working up front is the best; it’s quiet and peaceful and overall it smells nicer than economy.

Fatigue is defined my people in many different ways. The definition I like is, Fatigue is the state of feeling very tired, weary or sleepy resulting from insufficient sleep, prolonged mental or physical work, or extended periods of stress or anxiety. (“Fatigue 2012”). Fatigue plays a major role in today’s workplace safety and always has. It exists every day in every workplace and if not confronted could be catastrophic to the person or others. In this research we take a look at one industry in particular that is effected enormously by fatigue and that’s the aviation industry. Within the research it will discuss the safety concerns that are prevalent when fatigue is present, possible reasons why fatigue occurs in aviation, what is being done to lessen the effects of fatigue in the aviation industry, and what organizations and management could do differently to control fatigue even more.

Through the combined influences of experience and information processing, a model of cognitive ability and workload is presented. An increased cognitive workload has the ability to lead aircrews into a degraded perception of the events unfolding within the cockpit, creating an environment of miscommunication and confusion (Gibb et al., 2010). When the operational environment an aircrew is experiencing becomes too demanding, individuals expose their natural reactions due to the pressure involved. Normal reactions include a heightened sense of awareness and production, while negative reactions range from abnormal behavior to disengaging from the cockpit entirely (FAA, 2008). Typical remedies to unusual behavior are focused around additional training and learning from experience (Gibb et al., 2010).

In this commercial air travel, flight delays are inevitable part in the travel system. It is a serious and widespread problem that places a significant strain on the U.S. air travel system and its customers. As we will see, some flights are delayed more frequently compared to other flights, so there is an interest in providing the information to the travelers. This project deals with the factors that affect flight delays. In order to find out we go with the data analytic process i.e. data mining process which goes under the open-source software package called Weka. We use this Weka software in developing the project with different models in predicting the flight delays.