This paper records the lived reality of night-freight operations at a UK-registered airline. Observations were made over an 18-month period. The paper answers calls for more research into the working and living conditions of night-freight pilots. Pilots perceived numerous issues. These included...

In their paper 'Loss of Defensive Capacity in Protective Operations: The Implications of the Überlingen and Linate Disasters' Busby and Bennett attribute the 'defensive capacity' of an airspace system to the behaviour of those who constitute its production-protection space (first-line producers...