Previous research has shown that hazardous attitudes affect pilot judgment. These attitudes affect the way you make decisions, and can lead you into potentially hazardous situations. Later, you will learn ways to limit your own hazardous attitudes.

As a first step, you can take a self-assessment inventory to give you a personal insight into your hazardous attitudes.

We have three Hazardous Attitude Assessments

This self-assessment is taken directly from the FAA's circular on Aeronauatical Decision-Making.

In this self-assessment, ten situations will be presented, each involving a flight decision. After each situation, you will find a list of five possible reasons for a decision. No "correct" answer is provided for any of the 10 situations. You may indeed be correct in believing that a safe pilot would not choose any of the five alternatives. Be assured that most people know better than to act as described in the situations. Just recognize that the inventory presents extreme cases of incorrect pilot decision making to help introduce you to the five special types of hazardous thinking described later.

Please Note: Research has shown that this is not a very good way to measure your hazardous attitudes -- it is mainly designed as a teaching tool to acquaint pilots with the concept of hazardous attitudes. If you want to assess your personal attitudes, you should try either the Aviation Safety Attitudes Survey or the New Hazardous Attitudes Scale.

Read each of the situations carefully, then read each of the five possible reasons for a decision and choose the one most likely reason why you might make the choice that is described.

Version 2. Aviation Safety Attitudes Survey

The Aviation Safety Attitudes Survey consists of 27 statements in which you indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with each statement. This scale produces three different scores: Self-Confidence, Risk Orientation, and Safety Orientation. Each of these scores have been found to be related to aviation safety measures.

Version 3. The New Hazardous Attitudes Scale

This self-assessment instrument is based upon scales developed by researchers at George Mason University. It produces six measures of Hazardous Attitudes, that differ slightly from the measures contained in the original FAA Hazardous Attitudes Test.