ABSTRACT
For over 30 years, pilots are blamed to have caused more than 75% of all accidents. Everything within the knowledge (mental horizon) of the aviation industry personnel was improved, changed, renewed, uplifted, trained, instructed - the syllabi, the simulators, cockpit design, organisations, operations. A considerable amount of effort, time and money is regularly invested into flight crew training both by airlines and by flight crews. Among aviators, it is widely recognised that flying requires rather a skilled brain than skilled hands and fingers. Psychology deals with feelings and emotions. The typical male professional pilot, it seems, is normally reluctant to accept and consider feelings and emotions in his everyday business. To apply psychology at this point means: to distinguish between pure knowledge and the feeling of acceptance. The training of feelings and how to manage them is a rather demanding task for everybody involved in this long-term process.
