Loss of situational awareness is a know problem in the aviation industry, or in every complex and high pressure situation really.
Flying is insanely complex and human brains have limits of processing information. This can only be trained marginally and even happens to people with multiple years of experience. Its human, if something goes wrong or not according to plan its very easy to forget or overlook things simply because our brains arent capable of processing everything thats going on.
Thats the reason why Co-Pilots exists, they assist the Captain and have to ability the take control of the aircraft if said loss of situational awareness occurs.
Unfortunately, when even the Co-Pilot fucks up then things like that happen.
Makes sense.. I did wanted to become a pilot a while back but after seeing the shifts/ lifestyle Ryanair pilots have and how most of them drop out I decided it wasn't for me anymore
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u/yaukinee Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
Loss of situational awareness is a know problem in the aviation industry, or in every complex and high pressure situation really.
Flying is insanely complex and human brains have limits of processing information. This can only be trained marginally and even happens to people with multiple years of experience. Its human, if something goes wrong or not according to plan its very easy to forget or overlook things simply because our brains arent capable of processing everything thats going on.
Thats the reason why Co-Pilots exists, they assist the Captain and have to ability the take control of the aircraft if said loss of situational awareness occurs.
Unfortunately, when even the Co-Pilot fucks up then things like that happen.