Narrative:

I took off on my last leg of my five days in a row and about half way though it realized how fatigued I'd become. Here are some of the facts and you'll understand why I was. The following is my schedule over the past five days: (all times are EST)day 1: I have a 0400 show with four legs that gets done at 1300. I get up around 0230 for that show. I try to stay up later that evening after the trip even though I am tired because of my trip the very next day. Day 2: I have a 1500 show with four legs that gets done the next day at 0000. I got up early in the morning since I had gotten up so early the day before. I try to go to bed as soon as I get home being I only have ten hours and five minutes in base. In that ten hour time frame I have to catch employee bus; drive home which is at least not too far; get ready and try to go to bed; get a shower and get ready the next morning; drive back to work and catch the employee shuttle again. I don't sleep well at all since I am now going to bed at almost the same time I got up the previous day. I kept waking up thinking I had fallen asleep while I was flying. Day 3: I have a 1000 show with four legs that gets done at 2130. Again I have ten hours and eleven minutes in base. Again like the day before my ten hours of so called rest is reduced considerably by the time I get home and wake up. I think it would be safe to say I had no more than six hours of sleep on these days at the most but probably more like five hours or less of actual sleep each of these two nights. Day 4: I have a 0745 show with four legs that gets done at 2030. I sit after leg one for two hours and sit for just under four hours after leg three. The duty day is scheduled for twelve hours fifty four minutes. I am scheduled for nine hours fifty minutes of rest. We take a 0600 van already reducing the rest by thirty minutes right there. Day 5: I have a 0630 show time with four legs that gets done at 1530. I am as tired as I was in all of the previous days as the day starts. By the time I'm on the last leg I am spent. I am fatigued without a doubt. I'm glad there were no abnormalities on this last leg. Well... I just went to recurrent ground school last week. Someone took the time to make this nice fatigue video that I had to watch on line before going to ground school. I thought the video was well done but laughed the whole way through it because the company goes against most of the things the video had to say. Maybe the people that make the schedules should watch it. No one should have to do a very early in the morning show then the next day have to do a late show that is ends early in the morning. That happening with my day one and two was the start and I think the biggest contributing factor to my becoming fatigued the last leg.

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Title: A First Officer for a commuter air carrier detailed the specifics of a fatiguing five day flight sequence.

Narrative: I took off on my last leg of my five days in a row and about half way though it realized how fatigued I'd become. Here are some of the facts and you'll understand why I was. The following is my schedule over the past five days: (All times are EST)Day 1: I have a 0400 show with four legs that gets done at 1300. I get up around 0230 for that show. I try to stay up later that evening after the trip even though I am tired because of my trip the very next day. Day 2: I have a 1500 show with four legs that gets done the next day at 0000. I got up early in the morning since I had gotten up so early the day before. I try to go to bed as soon as I get home being I only have ten hours and five minutes in base. In that ten hour time frame I have to catch employee bus; drive home which is at least not too far; get ready and try to go to bed; get a shower and get ready the next morning; drive back to work and catch the employee shuttle again. I don't sleep well at all since I am now going to bed at almost the same time I got up the previous day. I kept waking up thinking I had fallen asleep while I was flying. Day 3: I have a 1000 show with four legs that gets done at 2130. Again I have ten hours and eleven minutes in base. Again like the day before my ten hours of so called rest is reduced considerably by the time I get home and wake up. I think it would be safe to say I had no more than six hours of sleep on these days at the most but probably more like five hours or less of actual sleep each of these two nights. Day 4: I have a 0745 show with four legs that gets done at 2030. I sit after leg one for two hours and sit for just under four hours after leg three. The duty day is scheduled for twelve hours fifty four minutes. I am scheduled for nine hours fifty minutes of rest. We take a 0600 van already reducing the rest by thirty minutes right there. Day 5: I have a 0630 show time with four legs that gets done at 1530. I am as tired as I was in all of the previous days as the day starts. By the time I'm on the last leg I am spent. I am fatigued without a doubt. I'm glad there were no abnormalities on this last leg. Well... I just went to recurrent ground school last week. Someone took the time to make this nice fatigue video that I had to watch on line before going to ground school. I thought the video was well done but laughed the whole way through it because the company goes against most of the things the video had to say. Maybe the people that make the schedules should watch it. No one should have to do a very early in the morning show then the next day have to do a late show that is ends early in the morning. That happening with my day one and two was the start and I think the biggest contributing factor to my becoming fatigued the last leg.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.