Speaker 1: We've been doing a bit of due diligence around a
Speaker 1: story that's going viral about two pilots on Batick Air
Speaker 1: that fell asleep simultaneously while they're flying one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty eight people, which seems inconceivable, like you have one job,
Speaker 1: probably to stay awake and fly the plane. But it
Speaker 1: made me wonder how common is this? So we thought
Speaker 1: who better to ask than our very own bachelor Australia,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Nicholson. He's a pilot, he's on the line. I
Speaker 1: think he's overseas flying around somewhere now.
Speaker 2: Jimmy, Hello, guys, how are you going?
Speaker 3: We're good, but also I need to know have you
Speaker 3: ever Oh you're not going to be able to answer
Speaker 3: this honestly though, So there's a there's a study that
Speaker 3: says fifty six percent of pilots have admitted to falling
Speaker 3: asleep whilst flying a plane, but not sleep. Yes, you're
Speaker 3: going to say no.
Speaker 2: I can't confirm or deny whether this story was me,
Speaker 2: but I do have a story that might shine some
Speaker 2: light on this can fill a topic. So there was
Speaker 2: a there may have may not have been a first off.
Speaker 2: So two pilots flying together one day and one of
Speaker 2: them looked over and realized that the other one was asleep.
Speaker 2: There's a few scenarios on board aeroplanes that will get
Speaker 2: your attention if you're a pilot, and the main one
Speaker 2: is any fire, any violated thing is it'll wake you
Speaker 2: up because it's the worst thing that can happen on aeroplane.
Speaker 2: And in fact, I've been training in Abu Dhabi for
Speaker 2: the last month, learning to fly in new aeroplane and
Speaker 2: I put a little thing on my Instagram of an
Speaker 2: in flight fire and people were like, what the hell
Speaker 2: is this? What does that sound?
Speaker 4: And everything.
Speaker 2: So it's basically the fire alarm of either a cargo
Speaker 2: fire or the man engine fire. So in this scenario,
Speaker 2: one of the parts knows the other bloke was asleep,
Speaker 2: and so they decided to we can do a test
Speaker 2: on the fire system in flight, which you don't normally do,
Speaker 2: but you can do it. And maybe that did in
Speaker 2: flight test the fire system, which scared living day the
Speaker 2: other person who was a sleep So yes, it does happen.
Speaker 2: There's actually a thing called controlled rest which is completely
Speaker 2: legal and normal, where one pilot will be asleep in
Speaker 2: the flight deck, which seems really weird, but it's done
Speaker 2: all around the world where you can actually it's controlled
Speaker 2: rest so you tell the cabin crew you're going to
Speaker 2: be sleeping one of you, not both of you, and
Speaker 2: you can sleep in the flight deck. It's completely it's
Speaker 2: completely legal. Not many people know about it, and most
Speaker 2: passages would probably be scared to hear that, but.
Speaker 4: It happens, so true. So so this is possible. They
Speaker 4: fell asleep, both pilots fell asleep for over thirty minutes,
Speaker 4: and the plane veered off course. So is that we
Speaker 4: did auto pilot turn off for what would have happened? Jimmy,
Speaker 4: that's not great.
Speaker 1: Premise of.
Speaker 2: Controlled rests that you say to the other first you're
Speaker 2: flying with hey, are you feeling all right? I just
Speaker 2: controlled rests, and then you can do it. But in
Speaker 2: that scenario, no, not great.
Speaker 3: We all know what it's like on a long car
Speaker 3: trip though, when like the person in the passenger seat,
Speaker 3: well no, of course, when the passenger falls asleep and
Speaker 3: then you're really bored and you're just trying to keep awake.
Speaker 3: And even when you're doing that, like you're constantly having
Speaker 3: to think when you're driving. But if you're a pilot,
Speaker 3: is there enough of it being like on literal autopilot
Speaker 3: that you don't have to be doing things every second,
Speaker 3: So it might get boring up there in the sky.
Speaker 3: How they're playing Candy Crash.
Speaker 4: How auto is autopilot?
Speaker 2: It totally does, and Laurie hit the nail the head.
Speaker 2: It gets very boring when you're in the cruise. There
Speaker 2: isn't much to do the most like, when you're taking
Speaker 2: off and landing in a cruise, you're quite literally I mean,
Speaker 2: unless there's weather around or whatever. But on a nice day,
Speaker 2: nice night, you just sort of sit there and stare
Speaker 2: out the window.
Speaker 4: So that's why, God, that's what.
Speaker 2: We do the controlled rest, but you're supposed to do
Speaker 2: on the premise to the other person's feeling, right. I
Speaker 2: mean I flew Britain Ben back from a holiday destination
Speaker 2: recently and that was the back of the clock flight,
Speaker 2: and I mean, what would you rather, brit Would you
Speaker 2: rather one of us sleeping at some stage so that
Speaker 2: we both feel alert or was you rather both there
Speaker 2: staring out the window with our eyes hang out of
Speaker 2: her head?
Speaker 1: I would ei on the price, to be honest, I
Speaker 1: just want someone away find awake, Like as long as
Speaker 1: one person is awake.
Speaker 4: On that note, Thank you, Jimmy God, that's so insightful.
Speaker 4: What a genius think you Go and enjoy your because
Speaker 4: where are you in the moment you're flying to Sri Lanka?
Speaker 2: Glenka, I mean I'm in Sri Lanka. No, I've finished
Speaker 2: my flying duties. I'm having a holiday over my wife.
Speaker 3: Well, I enjoy the holiday.
Speaker 4: Officially debunked. Everyone. Now, on that note, let's get some
Speaker 4: controlled rest ourselves and let's go home. Good night, see tomorrow, goodbye.
Speaker 2: Yes,