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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?"

The purpose of this question is to obtain examples of situations where they felt it necessary to take over the controls, we will obtain a fair picture of the critical situations in airline flying. Again, this question has been worded in such a way as to obtain specific behavior of pilots. Consequently, the interviewer should make certain that the interviewee tells him exactly what the pilot did or might have done in the particular situation. Again, it is important to get the last time the interviewee had to take over the controls. It is hoped that each examiner or check pilot will be able to recall the last three times he had to take over the controls from a pilot he was checking. Consequently, after the interviewee has recalled the last time, the interviewer will ask for him to recall the next-to-the-last time, and finally the time before that. Note that in the Interview Summary Report Forms for the examiner and check pilot interviews there is a seperate page for each of these three times. As a guide for the interviewer, the essential information to be obtained from this question can be summarized as follows:

1. The most recent example of what the pilot did or might have done of allowed to continue flying the plane. 
2. Conditions under which the examiner or check pilot had to take over: location, traffic, weather, instrument or contact flight, day or night flight, etc.
3. Type of airplane being flown.
4. Information about other equipment involved in the incident: engine failure, instruments misread, radio inoperative, etc. 

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?"