November 06, 2023  SEONews

How Pilot Personality Affects Safety Culture – SM4 Safety News from…

ESTJ is the general occupational personality theme code for professional pilots as defined by Meyers-Briggs. Yes, pilots hate those tests.

This combination of Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking and Judging personality traits exist in about 11% of the U.S. population. The traits that make great pilots can also be a detriment and a double-edge sword for your flight department’s safety culture.

If you evaluate yourself over the last week, you might find that you exhibited behaviors that encompass a variety of personality types. They can even change throughout your life, but each of us has an ingrained behavioral reflex and trend of thought process that often cannot be determined by a multiple-choice test.

Even though the ESTJ combination of personalities rose above the rest as a common theme in a personality test among thousands of people who are also pilots, your flight department is made up of variables of those traits, so let’s just address a commonality.

Introverts Exhibiting Extroverted Behavior

Despite what Meyers-Briggs says, pilots in general are introverts who exhibit extroverted behavior. Being a pilot requires outward confidence, decisiveness and the ability to immediately and clearly communicate a thought process that results in an external action. It’s not just about decision-making internally, like an executive in a boardroom. Pilots must put the result of their thoughts into immediate action and contend with instant feedback. The wrong action could lead to the...



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