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After a 15-hour drive to a job site, how should you treat your fatigue?

As an impaired state that no amount of experience can overcome.

  1. As something experience can overcome
  2. As fine once coffee kicks in
  3. As an impaired state ✔

Why: Fatigue hurts attention, coordination and decisions. The FAA says training and experience can't cancel it out; only real rest fixes it.

Huh, didn't know that: Acute fatigue is normally cured by rest and about 8 hours of sound sleep.

The dad joke
Why did the bicycle fall over? It was two tired.
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Sources

  1. FAA Remote Pilot Study Guide (FAA-G-8082-22), Ch. 9 https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/remote_pilot_study_guide.pdf

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