The FAA’s IMSAFE checklist specifically lists “stress” as a factor that pilots identify and mitigate when determining their readiness for flight. Most of us evaluate stress level as a part of our preflight considerations. It might even be a critical go/no-go decision chain element.
While important on the ground, it is equally important for pilots to understand how to identify and manage stress during a flight.
Learning to manage your stress and prioritize responses in situations that overtask your ability to manage multiple things at a time is a key skill to minimizing risk. Learning to manage your stress in situations that may overtask your ability to manage them is a key skill to minimizing risk in life, and certainly as a pilot.
Better handling your physiological responses that might otherwise degrade your performance to allow the best outcome in such situations can be a factor in avoiding disastrous outcomes. This might be when a pilot finds themselves in a stressful environment on a flight where things start stacking up against them, such as icing, or approaches that need to be executed to minimums, or even an emergency.
The inevitable and unpredictable stressors of flying can significantly affect a pilot’s ability to respond to and recover from stress.
[Stressors] can have detrimental effects on a pilot’s ability to make decisions…
Key indicators of stress…
Source www.planeandpilotmag.com
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