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This question is designed to provide us with the opinions of airline pilots as to the important factors contributing to unsafe airline flying. It is expected that the question will provoke opinions on many different aspects of airline operations, such as training, evaluation, communication, equipment, pilot traits, morale, dispatching, maintenance. Such information will be of value to us in later projects and certainly of value to the airlines themselves. The interviewer may wish to ask additional questions in order to obtain more opinions from the pilots. This, of course, will depend upon the judgment of the interviewer. It should be noted that this question is intended to obtain opinions whereas the previous questions were for obtaining specific incidents and behavior of pilots in those incidents. The interviewer, however, should make certain that he completely understands what the pilot means when he states an opinion on causes of unsafe airline flying. It may be necessary to encourage the pilots to be more specific in order that the interviewer understands what is being stated.

QUESTIONS #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?"

The purpose of this question is twofold: first, to obtain pilots' attitudes towards present methods of evaluation captains; secondly, to obtain their ideas for improving these methods. The question is worded in such a general way that the pilot may express attitudes or opinions about various evaluation procedures.

QUESTION #5

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