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257 Aging Pilot Challenges and Solutions – Dr. Victor Vogel

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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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257 Aging Pilot Challenges and Solutions – Dr. Victor Vogel

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257 Max talks with Dr. Victor Vogel about challenges pilots face as they get older. These include deteriorating vision and hearing, memory loss and declining strength, endurance, and proficiency.  But there are strategies pilots can use to counter declining proficiency. These include frequent flying, training, and scaling back on more challenging flight conditions.

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0:00.0

Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk General Aviation with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe.

0:10.4

I'm Max Truska, the author of several books on the government G-1000, 3,000, 5,000 in perspective, and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year.

0:19.3

Today we'll be talking with Dr. Victor Vogel about something

0:22.2

that affects you, me, and every other pilot alive, and that's aging. If we're lucky, we continue to

0:30.5

get older. But there are challenges associated with getting older, and we'll talk about how to

0:35.5

navigate the skies of aging and the challenges

0:38.2

of growing older. And so that you don't miss next week's episode in whatever app you're listening

0:42.9

to us now, take a moment now and touch the subscribe or follow key so that next week's episode

0:48.3

is downloaded for free. Last week in episode 255, we talked with pilot examiner and math

0:53.8

professor, Dr. Catherine Kavignaro, about using math to help you fly more safely.

0:59.5

So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewsdok.com slash 256.

1:05.7

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join the club, and support the show financially at AviationNewstalk.com slash awesome. And when you do,

1:26.3

I'll read your name on the show. Now let me tell you a little

1:29.3

about Victor Vogel. He's a board certified medical oncologist who was a medical school professor

1:34.4

for 25 years where he did clinical research and breast cancer treatment and prevention.

1:39.7

He's been flying for more than 40 years, and he's a CFI and double I, and a member of the board of

1:44.8

directors of the National Association of Flight Instructors. Two years ago, he founded a

1:49.2

public charity called Susquehanna STEM to the skies that seeks to bring aviation-based STEM

1:54.5

education to the high schools and career technical centers in the Susquehanna Valley of

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