Title: Describe human behavior with regard to dangerous tendencies.
Course: Aircraft Pilot Training II (20053-II) > Section: Exploring Aeromedical Issues

Description should include the following:

- Studies of human behavior have tried to determine an individual’s predisposition to taking risks and the level of an individual’s involvement in accidents.
- Five traits were discovered in pilots prone to having accidents. These pilots
  - have disdain toward rules
  - have very high correlation between accidents on their flying records and safety violations on their driving records
  - can be categorized as thrill- and adventure-seeking
  - are impulsive rather than methodical and disciplined, both in their information gathering and in the speed and selection of actions to be taken
  - have a disregard for or tend to under-utilize outside sources of information, including copilots, flight attendants, flight service personnel, flight instructors, and ATC.

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