Am i Fit to Fly?

Before each flight you must ask yourself, “Am I fit to fly? Do I feel well? Am I able to perform the physical and mental tasks that may be required of me as pilot-in-command?”

As a pilot, you should maintain a reasonable degree of physical fitness. It allows better physical and mental performance during flight and in the long term, and quite apart from flying, improves your chances of a long and healthy life.

Keeping fit takes some effort, and this effort must be continuous for fitness to be retained, but It can also be good fun and very recreational. Walking, jogging, playing sports, cycling, swimming, in fact anything that steadily raises your pulse rate will improve your fitness. But beware any of these activities such as playing futsal may be dangerous to your health for instance you may be fracture in any part of your lower torso and you are not able to fly anymore. I’ve seen one guy, he is mentally fit and physically fit but as the result of fracture of his foot fingers, he cannot push the rudder pedal! Going to the gym is more preferable in my opinion, not only your legs getting better but you can perform more in your marriage! LOL Remember one does not simply skip leg day.

Mental fitness is a fitness regarding to your brain and consciousness, anything related to dysfunction of the brain should be avoided. For example, drugs, alcohol, stress, family problems, lack of sleep should be avoided at any costs. In the paper, smoking can cause blurry vision, night degradation and the list will never stop! Do you actually need to stop smoking if you are going to be a pilot? Nahh! I’m a smoker too and I didn’t find it dangerous. This is because, you have to keep fit every day to counter the smoking effects! I’m not encouraging you to smoke but it’s your body, so “YOU HAVE CONTROL”.

Aku punya English bukan top notch. So paham-paham lah. Lagi pun in aviation ni, kau tak payah belajar English for communication, but English for aviation purpose. Contoh, ko kena faham English masa tengah voice comm. dengan tower. Itu je, atas kapal tu kau nak kecek klate ke, utagha ke suka hati hang la.

Goodluck!