A good pilot, almost by definition , will have not have significant personality disorders.
Most airline psych tests are designed, among other things, to weed out those who may be obsessive,
borderline paranoid, psychotic, delusional, eccentric, immoral, untruthful, too imaginative, psychopathic,
too highly sexed, chinless or too much the clown or the laughing boy. Hopeless at mental arithmetic
gets a low score too.
They are all designed . . the tests . . .. to firstly make pots of dough for the outfits running them . Money
misspent because nothing in this line of assessment has ever produced a better result than the time worn
chat with the applicant by the old hands.
The world is full of misfits. Dangerous people often enough. What a flier needs first and foremost is vigilance,
awareness and a well honed respect for the world aloft he is so fortunate to visit and explore. It pays to be humble.
Lest you be humbled...... or prematurely laid to rest.
Last edited by Fantome; 22nd Mar 2014 at 20:38.