ToiletDuck

I think it's BS. It's like a zodiac sign in that anyone could read that and say "Hey that's me". I don't know anyone that wouldn't like a boat lol.

KC10 FATboy

ArchAngel

I don't find the article to be all that accurate in my own personal experience. I grew up in an airline family (grandfathers, uncles, aunts, & father) and have taught a multitude of different people and I find that the best pilots are not always the "Type A", black/white, paranoid personalities. When I think of the personality characteristics that make a good pilot here's what comes to my mind: generally intelligent, able to make connections between data and results quickly, think outside the box (ie creative in a technical way), some inclincation towards mechanical objects, and confident.

I certainly don't fit the personality profile given in that article, neither does any airline pilot in my family. Yes, we all have a tendancy to be "list makers" and task oriented, but we also have excellent communication skills, healthy relationships with our signifcant others, empathy, and the ability to express emotions. Perhaps this is just my own family, but I think that alot of pilots if you spend the time to get to know them, aren't just robots who see black/white only.

Zapata

This is a baseless and arrogant assertion. And yes, I am a proud American.

atpcliff

Of course, the profile doesn't apply to YOU, or any one pilot. It is a generalization.

I'll bet that it probably fits a typical former airline pilot more (the airline pilots that were flying at the time that this personality profile was made) than it does airline pilots of today, as there is a much wider personality range of airline pilots now than there was when they were mostly former mil guys.

cliff
SYD

Tom a Hawk

sounds like a pilot with EVERY single one of the hazardous attitudes.

I would agree that all of us exhibit at lease one of these tendencies at some point or another.

But being married I dont bring my work personality home with me if I can help it. You can be cold and calculating and pay great attention to minute details in a cockpit but that ruins relationships with actual people.

Cioran

hmmmm....I set one alarm, have an advanced degree in the "mushy" social sciences and consider myself very introspective and at the same time find it hard seeing life in distinct black/white good/bad over-simplified categories. Maybe I should hand over my wings now. On the other hand, I find that I become more like this ALPA description when I fly, and much less like this on the ground. Maybe I compartmentalize my personality while flying more than most people.