Safety
Sleep apnea
Losing sleep is more than simply an inconvenience.

Losing sleep is more than simply an inconvenience. Good slumber is essential for good health and clear mental and emotional functioning, and for this reason sleep disorders should concern pilots and maintenance technicians. The issue of sleep extends beyond duty and rest time for pilots, a different topic that is moving at snail pace through the regulatory review process, because even extended periods of rest time are ineffective if a pilot is not sleeping deeply enough to derive the proper restorative properties of a phase that accounts for about a third of our lives.

According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), approximately 70 million people in the U.S. have some sort of sleep problem. About 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders and an additional 20 to 30 million are affected by intermittent sleep-related problems.

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