Plan continuation error is grounded in progressive commitment. This brief discussion utilizes an alternative, complementary methodology to explore the relationship of context to plan fixation in plan continuation error. This study augments a more comprehensive, data-based research effort that seeks to identify how context contributes to General Aviation pilot errors in weather-related decision-making. Context should be broadly considered as a complex configuration of relevant events or phenomenon that may be considered the domain within which the pilot makes the weather-related decision.
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