This comprehensive book describes, in practical and ethical terms, how recruitment, selection, and psychological assessment can be conducted by airlines and practitioners to determine aptitude among pilots. It includes chapters written by experts in the field on domains such as, air traffic controllers and astronauts.

1. Introduction Part 1. Pilot Selection and the Selection Process 2. History of Pilot Selection 3. Selecting for Cockpit Crew 4. Selecting Personnel for Safety-Sensitive Positions: Managing Response Distortion 5. Interviewing Skills for Pilot Assessment 6. Use of the Simulator in Assessment 7. Giving Feedback to Applicants 8. Rationale for Pilot Selection 9. Airline and Operator Legal Liability for Pilots and Their Selection: Practical Issues and What Is Enough? Part 2. Assessments in the Pilot Selection Process 10. Mental Health Assessment in Employment of Aairline Pilots 11. Ability, Aptitude and Performance Assessment 12. Assessing for Mental Health Problems as Part of the Pilot Selection Process 13. Personality Disorder and Its Clinical Assessment in Aviation 14. Neurocognitive Assessment 15. Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse Assessment 16. The Pilot Medical 17. Assessment Report Preparation Part 3. Selection and Training 18. Personality in Pilot Selection and Training: Is there a Right Stuff? 19. Pilot Personality in Flight Operations and Training - Illusive and Intrusive or Conducive and cCnclusive? 20. Training of Aviation Psychologists 21. Ethics in Psychometric Testing for Pilot Selection 22. Recruitment Process Part 4. Pilot Selection for Special Groups 23. Assessing Helicopter Pilots 24. Expat Pilot Selection - A Human Factors Perspective 25. Selection of Air Ambulance Pilots: Empathic Airmanship and the Safe Pilot 26. Selection of Aviation Maintenance Technicians 27. Aiming High: Maximizing Predictive Validity of Selection Processes for Air Traffic Controller Candidates 28. Into Space: European Astronaut Selection and Space Flight Participant Selection 29. Pilotless Aircraft Part 5. Other Pilot Selection Issues 30. After the Last Landing 31. Judgement, Decision-Making, and Intuition in the Pilot Selection Process