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Published in Peter J. Bruce, Yi Gao, John M. C. King, Airline Operations, 2018
‘Airmanship’ describes the personal and professional skills good pilots use in their daily work. Airmanship is not just adherence to procedures. It is an attitude, a way of thinking, of practising alertness, preparing for the unexpected, being observant, knowledgeable and practised in good CRM, flying skills, situational awareness and contingency planning.Airmanship is the consistent use of good judgment and well-developed skills to accomplish flight objectives. This consistency is founded on a cornerstone of uncompromising flight discipline and is developed through systematic skill acquisition and proficiency. A high state of situational awareness completes the airmanship picture and is obtained through knowledge of one’s self, aircraft, environment, team and risk.18
Rationale for Pilot Selection
Published in Robert Bor, Carina Eriksen, Todd P. Hubbard, Ray King, Pilot Selection, 2019
Carl Hoffmann, Arianna Hoffmann
Ideally, the output of this step should be approximately 200 to 300 activities across all phases of flight and flight preparation. A statement of management philosophy that captures how they accomplish and manage those activities should accompany this. However, it is difficult to manage pilots based on a list of 300 distinct activities. An essential part of the job analysis process is to aggregate these tasks into a taxonomy that reflects both the activities and the management philosophy of the cockpit. Different management philosophies result in different stresses on which pilot activities are most central and how they are to be accomplished, which in turn will place importance on different capabilities. It is therefore important to work with a small and well-respected group of stakeholders and subject matter experts to reduce this list of hundreds of activities into a higher level set of concepts that reflect the company’s overall approach to designing the role of pilot. This more meaningful list of activities can be used to communicate and focus the pilot on their overall goals and strategies to accomplish their work. In an earlier publication we presented such taxonomy. We briefly summarize it below.Basic airmanshipAircraft control activitiesNavigation and interaction with aircraft systemsEffective communicationOrganization and management Maintaining fitness for dutyPlanning and preparationFlight management activitiesAdherence to regulations, procedures and clearancesExecutive function Vigilance, analysis and situational awarenessDecision-making and leadershipTeamwork
Investigating the Predictive Validity of the COMPASS Pilot Selection Test
Published in The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, 2021
Iñaki González Cabeza, Brett Molesworth, Malcolm Good, Carlo Caponecchia, Rasmus Steffensen
Instructors provide each student a proficiency score on execution, acumen, and airmanship at the end of each flight. In the present research, proficiency scores were used at the RPL. The scores range from 1 to 7, with labels and definitions for each score. At the lower end, 1 is labeled “Very Poor” and is defined as “Fails to complete the task. Performance would typically demand a complete repeat of the instructional sequence.” At the higher end, 7 is labeled as “Excellent” and is defined as “Clearly achieves all aspects of the task first time and performs at an accomplished level. The standard is as good, or better than demonstrated.” Execution is defined as “The mechanical and physical processes required during flight operations, including fundamental practical and cognitive skills.” Airmanship is defined as “The attitudinal and judgment aspects of flight operations, including common sense, awareness, and CRM application.” Acumen is defined as “Sharpness or mental acuity, a measure of perceptive and/or discerning capacity and speed. Acumen is an indication of available processing abilities. Preparation is commonly a dimension of this attribute.”