Out of the fog: Helping pilots maintain peak performance

written by Staff reporter | October 26, 2019

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The latest in a series of articles written by Ben Cook that looks at how pilots maintain peak performance first appeared in the August 2019 edition of Australian Aviation.

The flight deck of the Cirrus SR22T GTS G5. (Seth Jaworski)
The pilots office. (Seth Jaworski)

I sit patiently watching my dad, who is resting quietly in his bed in the nursing home. A highly respected airline captain who finished up in command of very large A380 jets, he should be enjoying the fruits of his labour in semi-retirement. Instead, he lays for many hours in his nursing home bed and while he looks fit and healthy on the outside, the almost complete loss of memory has resulted in a state of lifelessness. It’s the outcome of the early onset of dementia which has taken his life away.

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