FAA Mismanagement and Controller Fatigue - Page 3 - Air Traffic Control - ATC

zoz02 · Posted: 02-17-2010, 07:04 PM

Thanks for the replies everyone, the BBS thing worked out great.

So far 70+ responses, a few more days and I will publish the results for anyone thats interested.

Thanks for everyone's help so far!!

towerflower · Posted: 02-18-2010, 01:11 PM

Glad to hear that, I'll post your thanks on the BBS.

bassdad1 · Posted: 02-19-2010, 08:51 AM

Just curious. How do you verify that the survey respondents are real controllers?

zoz02 · Posted: 02-19-2010, 10:59 AM

bassdad. No identifing information is kept to attract controllers to the study- not many controllers would take a survey that identifies them. It is assumed that nobody would lie and say they are an atc and take the survey- what would the purpose be? Its hard enough getting anyone to fill out a survey in the first place. Secondly, over half of the responses came the first day this was posted on the bbs so i would say with certainty better than 75% are current faa atc.

zoz02 · Posted: 02-26-2010, 10:54 AM

One more bump, currently 88 responses trying for the 100 mark. Thanks for everyone's time again!!!!!

Will post the results by Monday for anyone who is interested.

zoz02 · Posted: 03-01-2010, 12:29 PM

The survey is now closed. Thanks to all those ATC who took time to respond to this survey, a total of 88 responses were received. If you would like to view the results they are here, ATC Survey Results.

Interestingly over 1/3 of all respondents agreed or strongly agreed that "Someone at my facility has had an operation error/deviation that could be attributed to fatigue associated with rotating shifts, overtime or lack of breaks."

Again, I sincerely appreciate the time of those who responded to the survey!!

Rosstafari · Posted: 03-01-2010, 12:51 PM

I wonder who the one "Strongly Agree" was who said they always got 8 hours of sleep at night. Or better, where they're at.

zoz02 · Posted: 03-01-2010, 01:08 PM

Rossi, here was the comment on that one, guess the guy is on straight eves

Now that I"m on a straight shift (1+ year) I do. Before when on a rotating shift I would get an average of 5 hours of sleep.

Cirrus12 · Posted: 03-01-2010, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Rosstafari

I wonder who the one "Strongly Agree" was who said they always got 8 hours of sleep at night. Or better, where they're at.

He works at a Lvl 5 tower that shuts down at dusk. Ocassionaly they have to shut down for a few minutes because a flock of sheep are passing through.

Cirrus12 · Posted: 03-01-2010, 06:05 PM

I noticed on there you're using 8 hrs of sleep as the bench mark. Just something you might want to consider, needing 8 hrs of sleep is basically a crock of fecal matter. The amount of sleep someone needs varies widely based on a lot of factors. There are several studies out there talking about how some people need 5 hrs of sleep, some need 10.