Aviation Human Factors

Pilot Judgment Skills Assessment

In this assessment, you will be given descriptions of flight scenarios developed from real experiences reported to us through previous studies. Each scenario contains a description of the situation, and four courses of action which could be taken in response to the problem posed in the situation.

For the purposes of this assessment, you may assume that you are flying a leased Cessna 172, and that this is a personal (not commercial) flight.

There are no completely right or wrong answers, and you are not being asked to do anything illegal in any of the possible courses of action. You are simply to decide which is the best of several plausible courses of action to take in a given situation.

To allow us to interpret the responses, we asked a group of experienced flight instructors to tell us what they would RECOMMEND as the best course of action for a low-time, non-instrument rated private pilot in each of these situations.

After you complete the assessment, you will be told how well your responses matched the recommendations of that group of flight instructors.

Begin the Pilot Judgment Skills Assessment