@Tarzanboy
What about their crm and social skills?
I know enough pilots who are very good at these tests and who are aces in the simulator, but in a daily operation where everything is non-predictable they stress.
Funny you should say that. We have a problem with exactly that.
As you all no doubt know by now, the full LH selection is three stages (or four with medical). For Regional you only have to have passed the first two which means we have about 80% or pilots who were rejected at the last stage. Often it's impossible to see why they didn't get through (being older certainly seems to count against you), but in many cases it's all too obvious.
BUT, all these people get through their sim checks with good marks which brings me back to my point that the GU and sim are effective in assessing technical competency.
KT
Ps. I've never done the FU/FQ as I'm a: 43, b: and my eyes are just outside the LH limits