Impacto da visão monocular na performance e segurança de voo: neuroplasticidade e implicações regulatórias

Abstract

Monocular vision in flight performance and safety concerns pilots who have visual impairments but whose performance during flights is not impaired. 1. Topic: Impact of monocular vision on flight performance and safety: neuroplasticity, perceptual compensation, and regulatory implications. 2. Problem: How does the loss of stereopsis affect critical flight tasks, and to what extent do neuroplasticity and perceptual/attentional training compensate for such losses? 3. Objective: To synthesize recent and open evidence on neuroplasticity mechanisms relevant to monocular vision, compensatory strategies, their effect on tasks analogous to flight, and regulatory implications of the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for performance-based medical evaluation. 4. Methodological Procedures: Research conducted based on a qualitative literature review, aiming to concisely describe all collected data. 5. Results: The data considered monocular vision a fundamental aspect for pilots, imposing numerous challenges related to flight performance and safety. Given these issues, pilots need to adapt to new changes, seeking better conditions for each flight. 6. Conclusion of the results: In light of these factors, it is concluded that neuroplasticity acts in this sense as if it were an aid from the brain to improve the quality of vision when negatively affected. Strategies, therefore, are put in place based on ANAC regulations, which define what needs to be followed. 7. Suggestion – Always improve the early identification of vision impairments, and together with the regulatory body, achieve positive results and solutions, reducing risks and implementing solutions.