Re: Rogue Pilots ID Kit
Hugo Oscar Leimann Patt (hleimann_at_houseware.com.ar)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 05:42:06 -0300
Tony, Greg, all the gang,
The existence of these characters in all cultures and organizations may lead
us to thing that they constitute an undesirable aeronautical behavioral pattern.
Recall Phaetonte and Belerophonte in Homero's Illiade ?
They were, the mytological antecesors of our rougue pilots, vis a vis our
profesionalist and "airmaship brand" Daedale.
I presented a paper on that issue in the Belgrade's Congress of Aerospace
Medicine back in 1986 (when Belgrade and Dubrovnick where lovely cities to
visit).
We find this characters in both military and civilian milieu.
Psychodinamically they constitute hysteroparanoide characteropathies, they
freeze their cockpits, are prone to fly for others (like to have
spectators), to show their flying skills (that most of the cases are very
very good), they don't like copilots, in our country they use to say
"copilots are nothing more than the consequence of the captain's mood" or
worst than that "copilots are no more than flesh in transit".
They are "risk-seekers", counterphobic subjects, (it depends on the optic
you use).
Some years ago we developed a psychological model to understand these and
others kind of flying maladaptive syndromes using interchanges of different
kinds of aeronautical motivations and "defenses", and the percenage of
accidents they provoqued.
Those intersted, let me know.
I believe, that these fellows are the very most challenging characters in
the aviation behavioral spectrum. We must eliminate them from the system,
because they are incorrigible, and sonner o later they kill tehmselves and
their passangers. These are Bob's "boomerangs" and Brent's "drongos".
For me they are a pin on as.
Greetings from Buenos Aires.
Hugo