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Old 3rd May 2019, 10:56
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GordonR_Cape
 
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One possible solution (on which there is probably a bunch of research that may show it to be a very poor idea) would be to hook crews up to an IV line in sim training, and give them a massive slug of adrenaline when they first realise something is wrong. Their body is then going to want to drop into a classic fight-or-flight response; given that a stall can neither be run away from nor punched to death, this is unproductive, so you'd want to train pilots to manage this physiological process so they can get back to applying their rational-mind training as quickly as possible, and fly the damn plane. If they don't have this training, it's not surprising that they're failing at this in real life, and if that's the case then all the sim time and process-knowledge in the world isn't going to save them.
That kind of intensive training was used for early astronauts (The Right Stuff), since the risks were very high, but the dropout rate was very high. Some of today's veteran pilots with military fast-jet experience, might also have gone through that process. In the current era of widespread passenger jet transportation, I don't think that kind of training is viable.
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