During Vietnam a Navy Flight Surgeon did a presentation to pilot wifes trying to explain why their husbands were hard to live with.
Common threads: 1st born or 1st born of their gender
lettered in sports
college degree
part II
highest percentage of Eagle Scouts
While I was teaching at Mother Rucker each class of 25 had at least 5 Eagle scouts and every class had meet the list almost 100%.
Point being "A" personalities work great together in emergenices (can follow checklists well) because they love doing everything in order. Dont believe me..break your morning routine
of getting shaved and dressed. Shave the opposite side of your face first, shirt second/pants first whatever.
Do you leave at exactly 8:00 and know that at 9:30 you will be at point X, stop for gas at 11:47 and on the road at 11:53.
"Normal" flights are a bear and it comes out in their attitude to the other seat.
Does not make it any easier but better to understand why they
are the way they are. Used to teach this in CRM and it made the
cockpit less tense.