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It is hoped that each examiner or check pilot will be able to recall the last three pilots whom he failed on check rides and give examples of what each did. Consequently, after the interviewee tells about the most recent pilot he failed and answers Question #1a in regard to why this pilot committed these acts, the interviewer will ask him to recall the next-to-the-last pilot he failed. Question #1a then will be repeated to get the reasons for this pilot's behavior. Finally, the interviewer will ask the interviewee to recall the pilot he failed just before the next-to-the-last one. Again, Question #1a will be repeated. The interviewer should note that in the Interview Summary Forms for the examiner and check pilot interviews there is a separate page for each of the three pilots whom they have failed.

QUESTION #1a

"With your experience checking so many pilots you probably have thought a lot about why they do such things. In that situation you just told me about, why did that pilot do that?"

The purpose of this question is to obtain examiners' and check pilots' opinions as to the reasons for the unsafe acts committed by pilots who are failed on check rides. It is expected that some examiners and check pilots will have done a great deal of thinking about why pilots commit unsafe acts. This question is designed to obtain their opinions. Some may give very general reasons such as poor training, laziness, poor judgment, etc. These reasons are so general as to be almost meaningless. Consequently, the interviewer should attempt to get from the interviewees more specific reasons for the unsafe acts. If, in answer to Question #1, the examiners have given more than one example of something which the pilot did, the interviewer should attempt to obtain reasons for each of the unsafe acts.