Originally Posted by
onetrack
This post by Romeo E.T., outlines the concern raised many years ago by air safety people in BASI (Aust) - the difference in approach to driving between those who receive all their early training in a military environment, and in jet fighters - and those who receive all their early training in a 100% civilian environment.
The basic approach used by military training is aggression, "punch through at all costs", "the aim is to win, no matter what", and to take every risk possible, to achieve the targetted outcome.
In a 100% civilian busdriver training environment, the stated or implied aim is to "take no risks", "turn back before you get into trouble", "remember you have many lives in your hands".
It was raised as a point of serious discussion by BASI, that it is difficult to get someone who has been trained in a military/fighter jet environment to totally reverse all their training, all their thought patterns, their aims and objectives, to ones that are completely at odds with their initial and early aviation learning, when they convert to RPT flying.
But when it all goes 'pear shaped' who would you rather have as PF a Chesley Sullenberger ex military pilot or a pilot who had never pulled g, put the nose down more than 15deg, never been upside down or risked anything but was excellent at following magenta lines?