title: [Personality characteristics of pilots and navigators].
abstract: One of the pathways of improving the psychological selection of the flying personnel is to study properties of the personality responsible for flying tasks. It is important to form an ideal of personality properties of the pilot and navigator. With this purpose a special set of psychological methods allowing a comprehensive study of the personality was used. The results helped to identify personality properties typical of pilots and navigators and to suggest that high achievements in the professional activity of pilots and navigators are associated with their personality characteristics and correct selection of the flying specialty.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D010551:Personality; D013026:Space Flight; D013803:Thematic Apperception Test
vernacular_title: Izuchenie osobennosteĭ lichnosti letchikov i shturmanov.