The task force will establish a working group to develop "pre-selection" testing that would identify people with the potential to be both instructors and airline pilots.
This is likely to consist of psychometric, numeracy, literacy, decision making and motor skills tests similar to those already used by the airlines.
Mr Phillips said the task force believed this would give potential candidates the confidence to choose flight instruction as a suitable career path into airlines.
What's the fascination in the industry with testing for some Holy Grail of pilot skills?
They watch other people fly and have no sense of schedule...
Sounds like a present airline's crop of FO's and SO's combined with that same airline's seemingly deteriorating ontime schedule.