Chapter 1
Fatigue
Gentler than its type
How short were its legs?
Utilization isn’t graded for PR-VDR: too few of its flights were tracked to count its use fairly, in the full report too. So its free chapter here is Fatigue, which doesn’t depend on catching every flight.
More hours for each landing, so fewer pressurization cycles for its time in the air.
Hours per landingLead measure. 84th percentile
Middle 2.6PR-VDR0.55.5+3.8 : 1middle Global 6000/6500 2.6 : 1
Short hops76th percentile
Middle 31%PR-VDR0%70%+40%middle Global 6000/6500 31%
Leg length27th percentile
Middle 644 nmPR-VDR0 nm2,000 nm+456 nmmiddle Global 6000/6500 644 nm