DCS (Decreasing Combat Stress)?

[Mr_Burns]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06tmhm7/the-surprising-benefit-of-flying-a-virtual-war-plane

 

BBC Reel with a company using DCS to assist with combat stress!

 

I play PC Games and Sims to de-stress so why not?!

[Zius]

Interesting video!

 

 

My understanding is that practicing threatening situations (while being safe) to perfection will create an intimate familiarity with the correct procedures. So if something were to go wrong while flying an actual aircraft in a combat zone, get shot at and have (say) your hydraulic system fail on you, you will not panic but know the emergency procedure in that case. Similarly it will also teach the correct maneouvres etc.

 

 

However while being in a stressful situation often may increase your stress tolerance somewhat, I do think there is something very different between "combat stress" (i.e. the need to respond to an immediate threat) and the type of stress you'll find in an office job (i.e. the need to deal with deadlines and targets).

[Emmy]

Personally, I think the point of the program is to try to help teach people how to focus under “stress” in key moments and to show them that you can maintain a certain degree of “SA” even in “life or death moments.”

 

Sort of a way to reinforce the “keep your head while those around you are losing theirs” concept.