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Originally Posted by Jeff Alton
This is 100%.
Cheers
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Cheers Jeff.
I think shift work is another factor regarding burn out and extending the 56 mandatory retirement.
At many 24 hour facilities controllers work 40 hours a week on rotating shifts.
Many studies have shown the best rotating shift schedule would provide the greatest time off between shifts.
Here was my schedule.
Controllers are required to have minimum 8 hours off between shifts.
Rotating shift work can be very fatiguing.
Weekends off due to my seniority.
Monday 4pm to 12am
Tuesday 2pm to 10pm
Wednesday 7am to 3pm
Thursday 6am to 2pm
Friday 12am to 8am
Doable for a young person less so for an older person.
FAA knows this compressed work week was hard on controllers.
We would get surveys occasionally with questions like after your 12am to 8am midnight shift have you every been in a car accident leaving the atc facility?
Funny can’t drive safely but just worked the 3am air freighter arrival rush.
No one does this but it was suggested.
Say you had seniority and were fortunate to have weekends off, if so this was a schedule that studies found had the greatest time off between shifts and would be best for controller health.
Off Saturday
Off Sunday
Monday 12am to 8am
Tuesday 6am to 2pm
Wednesday 7am to 3pm
Thursday 3pm to 11pm
Friday 4pm to 12am.
So your weekend would start Saturday 12am and end Sunday at midnight.
On top of that half hour lunches so if you went out for lunch you had to drink fast. lol