Hazardous Attitudes: Introduction

Hazardous Attitudes Assessment

Previous research has shown that hazardous attitudes that 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. This assessment asks you to decide why you, as a pilot, might have made certain decisions.

We have two versions of this self-asseement inventory.

Version 1. The Old Hazardous Attitudes Assessment

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.

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.

Begin the Old Hazardous Attitudes Assessment.

Version 2. The New Hazardous Attitudes Assessment

This self-assessment instrument was developed by researchers at George Mason University.

In this self-assessment, 30 statements are given. For each statement, you will need to indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with the statement. For technical reasons, this assessment produces six, slightly different Hazardous Attitudes. Overall, if you try both versions you should find that they generally produce the same results.

Be sure to read the statements carefully, and then indicate how strongly you agree or disagree.

Begin the New Hazardous Attitudes Assessment.