Utilizing Situational Judgment Tests (SJT) for Pilot Decision-Making.

Pilot decision-making is an important issue to flight safety. Students in collegiate flight training are pursuing careers as professional pilots, and what they initially learn about decision-making will guide their actions throughout their flying careers. Investigating aeronautical decision-making can be a tool for improving the decision-making quality of collegiate flight students and subsequent professional pilots. The more flight students are introduced to the process of aeronautical decision-making, the stronger their understanding of the limitations of their abilities. With the close link between flight safety and decision-making, it is only natural that the safety culture as a whole will be improved through this process. The purpose of this paper is not to determine the effectiveness or validity of the situational judgment test, but illustrate the utilization of the situational judgment test within a collegiate flight training program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]