

Fatigue & Flying
FATIGUE & FLYING Flying can be terrifying when the pilot is tired. I recall one very sunny cloudless morning I woke up over the English Channel at 6000 feet over the blue still waters. I cannot recall how long I was asleep at the controls while the Shadow microlight, I thought I was in command of, was flying by itself. It must have been the late night before and the few days of touring in France with students and friends in a gaggle of 6 aircraft that caused the tiredness. Th