1988-05 · NASA ASRS report 87574
135 OPERATION ACR LTT TRACK DEVIATION PROBABLY CAUSED BY LONG DUTY TIME.
ON OUR SEVENTH LEG OF THIS FLT. WE HAD FLOWN 6.5 HRS WITH LESS THAN 1 CUMULATIVE HOUR OF BREAKS. BELOW 14000' IT WAS HARD IFR. WE WERE ON OUR FILED ROUTE TO INTERCEPT AN ARWY; WE PASSED THROUGH THE ARWY BY 3 DEGS (AT OUR DISTANCE FROM THE VOR APPROX 3 MI). WE NOTED THE ARWY PASSING THROUGH AND TURNED TO INTERCEPT. AT NO TIME WAS THERE A FULL SCALE DEFLECTION. ATC THEN QUERIED US IF WE WERE ON OUR ASSIGNED ROUTING. LET IT BE NOTED THAT MY COPLT AND I WERE TO FLY 3 MORE HRS INTO THE NIGHT; OUR TOTAL DUTY TIME FOR THE DAY WAS 14.7 HRS AND WE CUMULATIVELY SHOT 18 APCHS 15 TO MINIMUMS WITH ONE MISSED APCH; ALL IN THE NE CORRIDOR. OUR FINAL APCH WAS AT BGM; NO APCH CTL; DRIVING RAIN; FOG AND 3/4 MI VIS AT 0020 IN THE MORNING. WE LOGGED 7 HRS OF ACTUAL IFR! CONTRIBUTING FACTOR: PLT FATIGUE; DUE TO BAD WX TIGHT SCHEDULING AND DISREGARD FOR CREW BREAKS BY MY COMPANY. WE FINALLY REFUSED TO FLY AT 2100 UNTIL PROVIDED A BREAK OUT OF THE ACFT WITH A MEAL. QUESTION: WHY DO PLTS WHO FLY THE LONGEST HRS; IN THE POOR WX OF THE LOW ALT STRUCTURE; AND LEAST COMPLEX ACFT; UNPROTECTED BY SANE FLT TIME AND DUTY REGS?
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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