Managing Mental and Physical Stress as an Air Traffic Controller

The Side by Side ATC Podcast by Tom Hanes

Episode notes

In this episode, I talk about specific ways you can mitigate stress while at the Academy and as a trainee at your first facility.

They include:

Creating a routine for your time at the Academy that includes:

  • study time
  • downtime
  • sleep
  • exercise

Positive Visualization

Creating a routine for working a scenario

I talk about how sleep deprivation will impact you the rest of your career as an air traffic controller, how exercise will help with that sleep deprivation and how all of it works together.

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