An A320 first officer reported that he and the captain removed themselves from a trip fatigued becau...

Attributes
ACN	997228
Time
Date	201203
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250 Flight Crew Total 10000 Flight Crew Type 4500
Events
Anomaly	Other fatigue

Narrative:

I was on my 8th day in a row away from home; two 4-day trips back-to-back; each with 30+ hour layovers that arrived late on day 1 and departed early on day 3; which puts my body clock out of whack. Predawn hotel pickup; the captain and I both missed the correct altimeter setting on the before start checklist and the revised route on the pre departure clearance; even though I picked up the pre departure clearance and read it; which is my standard technique. We discovered the altimeter error on taxi-out and the pre departure clearance revision on departure; when departure cleared us to a fix that was not programmed in the FMGC. We both removed ourselves from the remainder of the trip due to fatigue.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An A320 First Officer reported that he and the Captain removed themselves from a trip fatigued because the four day trip upset their circadian rhythm and they were making too many errors.

Narrative: I was on my 8th day in a row away from home; two 4-day trips back-to-back; each with 30+ hour layovers that arrived late on day 1 and departed early on day 3; which puts my body clock out of whack. Predawn hotel pickup; the Captain and I both missed the correct altimeter setting on the before start checklist and the revised route on the PDC; even though I picked up the PDC and read it; which is my standard technique. We discovered the altimeter error on taxi-out and the PDC revision on departure; when Departure cleared us to a fix that was not programmed in the FMGC. We both removed ourselves from the remainder of the trip due to fatigue.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

An A320 first officer reported that he and the captain removed themselves from a trip fatigued because the four day trip upset their circadian rhythm and they were making too many errors.