EXPOSURE TO MILD HYPOXIA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DECISION MAKING

Authors

  • Robert Henderson

Keywords:

Training and Safety, Coaching, Health, Physiology

Abstract

The requirement to ensure that glider pilots are functioning at a sufficiently competent level must be based on their ability to perform rule-based and knowledge-based decision making. When the implication for decision making is combined with the now, well documented, variability in individual response to a hypoxic insult, the results of this study suggest that competitive glider pilots should consider using supplementary oxygen at altitudes significantly below 10,000 ft in order to maintain a high level of blood oxygen saturation to improve their rule-and knowledge-based decision making abilities.

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Vol. 26 No. 4 (2002)

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