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for the standardized interview with this group:

QUESTION #1: "First, we would like to draw on your experience as a check-pilot to get examples of what pilots do on check rides. WOuld you think back on the last pilot you failed on a check ride and tell me exactly what he did which caused you to fail him?"

QUESTION #2: "Now, I would like for you to recall the last time you had to take over the controls from a pilot you were checking because you felt the situation was pretty critical. Could you describe the situation and tell me just what the pilot did or might have done if you hadn't taken over?"

QUESTION #3: "When you check a pilot, what are the things you particularly look for which you feel differentiate a good airline pilot from a poor one?"

QUESTION #4: "If you ran an airline and had the problem of keeping check on whether captains were doing a good job, how would you do it?"

QUESTION #5: "What characteristics, traits, or abilities which differentiate the good airline captain from the poor are not being evaluated adequetly by present methods of evaluation?"

QUESTION #6: "How would you change the present instrument check so that more of these desirable characteristics, traits and abilities of the good airline pilot could be evaluated?"

An "Interviewers' Guide" for use by the intervieweres during the COmpany Check-PIlot and Civil Aeronautics Examiner interviews was prepared and sent out to each interviewer. This is reproduced as Appendix 6. A booklet was also prepared which explained the purpose of each question and the type of information desired from each question. This booklet, called "Questions for the Company Check-Pilot and Civil Aeronautics EXaminer Interviews" is reproduced as Appendix 7. Standardixed forms for recording the information obtained from these interviews were prepared. These were called "Company Check-Pilot and Civil Aeronautics Administration Examiner Interview Summary Forms," one of which is reproduced as Appendix 8.

3. Establishing the Interviewing in the Field. The same interviewers who conducted the pilot interviews carried on the interviews with Civil Aeronautics Administration Examinrs and Company Check-Pilots. The supervisors in those cities where such interviewees were available were furnished with copies of a circular letter sent out to all Civil Aeronautics Administration Regional Administrators by an official of the Washington offices of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. This letter briefly explained the project and requested that the Regional Administrator notify each examiner (or inspector) that he would be interviewed and requested that he instruct each to cooperate with the interviewers.

No special training program for interviewers was recommended, inasmuch as by the time this aspect of the project was initiated, the interviewers already had received instruction and experience in interviewing the airline pilots.