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If you test for average pilots, then you've still got approx 50% of pilots who aren't capable. Whatever happened to testing for the lowest common denominator -
by BuildTheRobots 7y ago
If you test for average pilots, then you've still got approx 50% of pilots who aren't capable.
Whatever happened to testing for the lowest common denominator - especially in life and death situations?
- m4r35n357 7y agoGood idea - any shit pilots want to volunteer? ;)
- ryanlol 7y agoI don't think it'd be any kind of a challenge to find shitty volunteer pilots, you just restrict your search to PPLs.
- jrwr 7y agoWhat about just picking 10 random airline pilots from around the world to test it out a few times and get feedback?
- gentaro 7y agoYes, we need to round up our dumbest pilots for these tests.
- Swenrekcah 7y agoDon't they mean they must recruit pilots at something close to random, so they should indeed get all skill levels? I couldn't read the article so I can't verify but that's what I would think, because how do the otherwise find 'average' pilots? By a survey?
- PeterisP 7y agoHow about we take below-average pilots, have them run the test right after their normal full shift ends without any rest in between, and give them a glass of whisky for encouragement?
- ohduran 7y agoLove this.
- doctor_eval 7y agoWelcome to the Aperture Laboratories Aircraft Enrichment Centre!
- crazygringo 7y agoIn all seriousness (but with less fun), a similar effect can be produced simply by asking them to be reciting the alphabet constantly, solving addition problems constantly being fed to them, etc. -- anything that is constantly distracting half their brain. In fact, this is a similar technique some actors use to make sure they know their lines cold -- no matter how well they can recite them with full concentration, can they still recite them while playing an intense video game? Because things will be so different on stage/set, it will be equivalently distracting.
- davinic 7y agoTesting a large enough random sampling of people will include the lowest common denominator as well.