A Model That Uses Psychomotor Testing to Predict Naval Aviator Primary Flight Grades
Abstract
With the costs of pilot training escalating, it is becoming increasingly important to make as few mistakes as possible in the selection of potential aviators. In the early days of aviation the use of psychomotor testing played a big role in this selection process, but the physical complexities of the system caused its discontinuance. More recently, researchers at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, using micro-computers, have developed two new series of psychomotor tests. This thesis uses stepwise and multiple regression techniques to confirm the viability of using such a series of psychomotor tests to predict the flight grades of student aviators in primary flight school. The fitted regression model accounted for 77% of the variance in the primary flight grade data examined and appeared to be approximately 4.5 times better than the model currently used. Keywords: Missing values; Aviation selection; Pilot training; Flight grade prediction; Psychomotor. Theses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA201217
Entities
People
- Walter R. Decker Jr.
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School