Study Finds Pilots' Brains Work Differently - AVweb

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That crossed my mind as well, Gary. It would make sense to me that any activity, not just flying, affects the brain and helps it to grow in such regard. It is evident that each person is an individual and has different skills and abilities that help him/her in different activities and that can be further developed to become an even better pilot, for example. So, people who are skilled in multitasking and try flying will become good pilots, while people who are terrible at it will either give up flying or end up in a smoking hole in the cornfield. This is also called natural selection, lol.

Something that hasn’t been mentioned is: are there any other traits that would make one want to become a pilot that are linked with that “predisposition” for multitasking?

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One of my best USAF friend’s Son was very big into go cart racing. When he finished college and went into the USAF as a pilot, he scared the crap out of his FAPE instructor during formation flying because he wasn’t adverse to tucking his airplane in with the other one. So your point is spot on, Dan.

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I was thinking the same thing. If it is that people who think in certain ways become pilots, or become better pilots, that opens the idea to testing and identifying those that would make the best pilots before hour one. Or maybe there could be testing to see which ones have the ability to learn to think that way.