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> I quickly learned that flight testing is all about reading regulations and checking the aircraft for compliance. Sure, there is some flying involved I recen
by waterhouse 6y ago
> I quickly learned that flight testing is all about reading regulations and checking the aircraft for compliance. Sure, there is some flying involved
I recently watched some videos of people doing plane checklists; one had an error within two minutes, another had only one pilot doing the checklist while the other was away. I've also heard that humans skipping items or entire checklists is a general problem. Out of curiosity, would people with borderline or genuine OCD be a good fit for this? (Would it be practical to factor out the "checklist compliance" into a separate person? Seems like "remaining calm in an emergency, quick thinking, judgment and reflexes", and whatever else I might imagine are best for the pilot are at best orthogonal to "obsessive following of checklists".)
- chrischattin 6y agoOCD is medically disqualifying for pilots.
- kaitai 6y agoThe pilots I know also like a lot of order in the rest of their lives (matching plates, keep their tools in order, just the sort of daily-life organization that is somewhat alien to me). Not to the point of clinically-diagnosed OCD, because I don't think these pilots have intrusive thoughts and compulsions -- they just get positive feelings from having things organized and slightly more deterministic.