Can Covid 'rustiness' make pilots less prepared?

of the platform has found several Covid-related mistakes, one of which involved a plane landing without having obtained permission to do so."Since Covid-19 breakout, I was not flying as frequently as before," wrote one of the pilots from that flight."I believe this was factored into this incident."

," agrees that a lack of currency, in any profession, can affect performance and level of preparation. However, he stops short of calling it a safety concern. But what happens to a pilot that hasn't flown in so long?"They may lose situational awareness, which is the knowledge of where you are in the air, being able visualize yourself in the cockpit space, and also in air space. They may also suffer in decision-making and problem-solving, due to being out of the loop of making decisions along the lines they normally make during operational time," says Dickens.

Whether or not a pilot feels fully competent upon returning to work after a break might also have to do with factors that are unique to each individual, such as how long they've been flying, on which aircraft, as well as their general mental and physical well-being.

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