This study concerns the relationship of naval flight training performance to scores on the Aviation Qualification Test/Flight Aptitude Rating (AQT/FAR) and the automated Pilot Personality Questionnaire (PPQ). We analyzed a sample of 211 pilot candidates who had taken the AQT/FAR and PPQ. We found that the PPQ competitiveness scale and three of the AQT/FAR subtest score means were significantly different (p < .05) for those who passed (N = 168) and those who attrited (N = 43) flight training. Discriminant analysis yielded a linear composite of the AQT/FAR and PPQ subtest variables that could be used to classify the students according to the likelihood of passing or attriting during flight training. The resulting discriminant function explained 9% of the variance in the pass/attrite criterion (r = .30). We found that a 50% reduction in attritions could be attained with a 23% increase in false rejections. The regression analysis was significant (p < .01) and indicated that three scales of the PPQ and the AQT and FAR scores accounted for unique variance in a linear prediction equation. The FAR and PPQ competitiveness scale were the most powerful predictors of overall flight training success. Aviation selection, Personality tests, Personnel selection, Pilot training.


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