Pilot fatigue is a serious safety issue in modern aviation operations mainly because of the unpredictable excessive working hours without adequate rest and time zone transitions, multiple flight sectors that are commonplace in both civilian and military flight operations. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports show that fatigue has been a contributing factor in a number of aviation accidents and near misses. A small scale experiment was performed to investigate whether the pilot’s fatigue, and performance would differ between novice and expert pilots during multiple flight segments under normal and extreme flight conditions. six pilots with different experience levels (i.e. novice and experienced) participated in flying the
