alt Hacker News> Surely the key skill here is calm under pressure and stress?
... which is personality.
Not trying to defend or not defend what actually happened, but there's growing use of personality measures in various vocations for this very reason.
> Surely the key skill here is calm under pressure and stress?
... which is personality.
Not trying to defend or not defend what actually happened, but there's growing use of personality measures in various vocations for this very reason.
The actual, as another poster provided, was a racist hiring procedure hidden in a test and apparently designed to rug-pull all the trainees paying their own way in training.
Apart from that, the intelligence is certainly needed, but with a heavy dose of spatial reasoning. the right kind of 'calm under pressure' is an excellent command of the details of ATC; anything else here is just lethal apathy.
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