This article presents a critical examination of pilot selection batteries. The first part of the article focuses on two problems. First, the vast majority of pilot selection batteries predict training performance rather than operational performance; second, the batteries have low correlations between the predictors and the criterion. The second part of the article examines why these two problems occur. Last, a number of suggestions for improving the predictive validity of the selection batteries are offered.
After 9/11, new security duties were instituted at many U.S. air carriers and existing safety and security duties received increased emphasis. Concurrently, in-flight services were changed and in many cases, cabin crews were reduced. This article examines the post-9/11 conflict between passenger service and the timely performance of safety and security duties at 1 major U.S. air carrier. In-flight data were obtained on both international and domestic flights. The data suggest that the prompt performance of the safety and security duties is adversely affected by the number of service duties occurring in the later part of both international and domestic flights.
This experiment demonstrates that the response strategies used to perform a discrete task combination reflect individual differences in multiple- but not single-task information processing. Subjects performed a discrete task combination on two consecutive days. On Day 1, the strategy was identified as a simultaneous, an alternating, or a massed response strategy. On Day 2, some of the subjects were asked to change strategy. Comparisons among subjects using the same strategy on Day 2 indicate that subjects who use the massed response strategy naturally do not perform as well under multiple-task conditions as do the other subjects, although their single-task performance is not significantly poorer. Subsequent analyses revealed that massed response subjects may have poorer time-sharing skills than other subjects.
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