New Zealand pilots stressed?
The cost of Loss of Licence Insurance has just gone up in New Zealand by approximately 20%.
The reason is due to an increase in claims.
There there has been a worrying trend in increasing claims related to anxiety, stress, and depression.
I think this is due to increased workload. Not necessarily at work, but in general.
If we compared a pilot 15 years ago to a pilot now I suspect the modern day pilot would spend more minutes/ hours/ days attending to requests made of him or her, and a significant number of those requests would be made via email or text message. In some cases I imagine that to comply with all the requests would result in very little downtime at all between normal flying duties.
I was flying 15 years ago and it seems to me that a change in policy/ procedure back then was relatively rare ( every few months) as opposed to 2018 when it is very nearly daily.
Is this an issue that we will have to address as an industry in the decades to come or is this just what it feels like to get old and grumpy?
Cheers