Psychiatric strengths and weaknesses of typical air force pilots

Stress Coping Strategies in Indian Military Pilots-Preliminary Observations

“…In one of the first, Fine and Hartman (1968) found that pilots predominantly coped with disruptive emotion and life crises by seeking constructive solutions. Somewhat less common, but nevertheless utilized processes were arguing, joking and ignoring the situation.…”

USAF Summer Research Program - 1994 Summer Faculty Research Program Final Reports, Volume 2A, Armstrong Laboratory.

“…Female aviators also present distinct personality types . With such differences between pilots and the general population, Air Force psychologists use norms specifically established for pilots when evaluating aviators (Fine & Hartman, 1968;King, 1994;Retzlaff & Gibertini, 1988;Wheatley, 1979) . Pilots often look pathological when compared with the general population, yet have "normal"…”

Fatigue Stressors in Simulated Long-Duration Flight. Effects on Performance, Information Processing, Subjective Fatigue, and Physiological Cost

“…Three subjects, kept awake 90 hr, reportedly did not show any remarkable performance decrements until about the 72nd hour, at which V time they began falling into involuntary micro-sleep periods after which their performance wild immediately improve. Still, many early studies on sleep deprivation failed to find significant performance decline, until a minimum of 36 hr of sleep deprivation, and often a maximum [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72] In 1937, Warren and Clark (208) used addition and subtraction and colornaming tests (similar to those of Bills) to measure blo:ks, latency, and accuracy during 65 hr of sleep deprivation. Blocking was found to increase greatly after a period of prolonged sleeplessness, but the usually employed measures of error scores and RT showed no relationship to sleep loss.…”