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When night shift air traffic controllers were given 40 minutes to nap — and slept an average of 19 minutes — they performed much better on tests that measured vigilance and reaction time.

The Federal Aviation Administration has begun working on a plan to shift air traffic patterns inland, and according to Mr. Warshauer, who has been supervisor since 2004, "It could impact in a very negative way what we've worked so hard to preserve here in Pound Ridge".

Just a few hours earlier, on the Friday-to-Saturday overnight shift, an air traffic controller fell asleep at the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center, the F.A.A. said.

It's going to require a shift from ground-based air traffic control to GPS-based.

Last month, Mr. Borschberg folded his 6-foot-3-inch, or nearly 2-meter, frame into the cramped, single-seat cockpit and piloted the plane on its first international flight to Brussels from Payerne, Switzerland — a journey of 630 kilometers, or 390 miles, as the crow flies that, because of the need to dodge commercial air traffic and shifts in the weather, took him just shy of 13 hours.

Potential collisions pop up dozens of times in an air traffic controller's shift.

By the end of this decade the F.A.A. plans a shift from the clumsy voice-based air traffic control system to high-speed "digital data links," transmitting bursts of data like those in instant messaging systems.

"Any individual undertaking accurate detailed work without normal day/night cycle will be affected, whether it is the air traffic controller on shift work, or nuclear power workers".

The fault lies with outdated air traffic management and air traffic control and anachronistic national systems.

The measure approved by Congress in response to the flight delays would give the transportation secretary flexibility to shift as much as $253 million to the air traffic control system and return staffing to full strength.

The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.