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there's nothing easy about keeping yourself alert for multiple hours while doing nothing at all our brains and bodies are lazy and efficient, do nothing long e
by ysofunny 2y ago
there's nothing easy about keeping yourself alert for multiple hours while doing nothing at all
our brains and bodies are lazy and efficient, do nothing long enough and the instinctive "screensaver timeout" kicks in, and you get bored, then loose alert attention. preventing this from happening for multiple hours is tiring and a skill which means it gets easier to do the more you do it
- hnfong 2y agoIt seems pilots are actually going to be great at meditation. Or maybe the other way round! Master meditators could be great at piloting as well..
- psunavy03 2y agoAs a former military aviator, I will say that there might be something here. A skill that's praised in that community is "compartmentalization," or being able to put away distractions such as the argument you had with your spouse, the kid being sick, or the late paperwork sitting on your desk that's irritating your boss, and focus solely on flying the mission while you're in the cockpit. That said, at least in my time, they did a crap job of actually teaching students HOW to compartmentalize. That said, one of the steps in being qualified to fly any given aircraft is having to occasionally get in the simulator and fly a "Kobiyashi Maru" type sequence of multiple compounding emergencies over and over again. You're being graded not just on being able to follow the checklists, but knowing enough about the aircraft to know what to do when multiple systems fail and the checklists contradict each other, or you're in a corner case where following a checklist blindly is a dumb idea. In cases like these, being able to be calmly present in the moment is a very valuable skill.