"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain Sleeping..."

[chu me]

As someone who has severe sleep apnea I take exception to cyxe's post. I have neverfallen asleeeeeep..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. . Seriously, I have never fallen asleep at the controls, nor while I'm driving. This thinking about sleep apnea is old school. While sleep apnea may lead to narcolepsy (falling asleep uncontrollably ) it is very rare. If I were to fly with Patty Wagstaff during a performance I would not go to sleep!!!! Having said all of this, if the pilot did not know he had sleep apnea he may fly chronicly fatigued and not even know it. As for sleeping during his rest period, he may have gotten 8-10hrs prone rest before he went flying and therefore have been well within the regs. However, when I went for my sleep study they found that I was getting only 20min of rest for every 3 1/2hr of sleep, so I could have slept 24hrs straight and only received about 2hrs of rest, I did this for two years straight!!!! If he has been diagnosed and treated he should be able to continue to fly safely. As for the other pilot , I have no idea what his or her excuse could possibly be!!!

Ther I'm done boys....... have at'er!

[cyxe]

As someone who has severe sleep apnea I take exception to cyxe's post. I have neverfallen asleeeeeep..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. . Seriously, I have never fallen asleep at the controls, nor while I'm driving. This thinking about sleep apnea is old school. While sleep apnea may lead to narcolepsy (falling asleep uncontrollably ) it is very rare. If I were to fly with Patty Wagstaff during a performance I would not go to sleep!!!! Having said all of this, if the pilot did not know he had sleep apnea he may fly chronicly fatigued and not even know it. As for sleeping during his rest period, he may have gotten 8-10hrs prone rest before he went flying and therefore have been well within the regs. However, when I went for my sleep study they found that I was getting only 20min of rest for every 3 1/2hr of sleep, so I could have slept 24hrs straight and only received about 2hrs of rest, I did this for two years straight!!!! If he has been diagnosed and treated he should be able to continue to fly safely. As for the other pilot , I have no idea what his or her excuse could possibly be!!!

Ther I'm done boys....... have at'er!

Fair enough, a bit of hyperbole in my example perhaps - I was primarily commenting on Family Guy's post wondering why someone couldn't stay awake for 44 min.
But, as someone who has to deal with the fallout of workers falling asleep on the job thanks to untreated OSA, I can tell you it is an issue, and in bad cases can be initially mistaken for narcolepsy in presentation (since you mentioned it). Daytime sleepiness can be severe in both, just the rapidity of onset differs (among a few other things). If you have severe OSA and have never fallen asleep on the job (or elsewhere), that is a fortunate thing. Not everyone can say the same.

[BoostedNihilist]

I find it telling that an FA didn't notice.. really. Pick up the little phone or knock on the door

What happend to covering your partners ass?