COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT OF USAF PILOT TRAINING CANDIDATES

Background: Most intellectual and cognitive assessment of pilots is do ne with locally developed assessment devices. The United States Air Fo rce currently uses the recently developed CogScreen (Aeromedical Editi on) to assess these areas. Hypotheses: There will be differences on th e CogScreen across USAF student pilot candidates and commercial pilots . Methods: This paper presents the test scores of 512 USAF pilot train ing candidates who were tested with this commercially available, ''off -the-shelf'' product. Comparison data was abstracted from the test man ual on commercial pilots. Results: Data from the new CogScreen (Aerome dical Edition) is provided and shows consistent differences between pi lot training candidates and commercial pilots across reaction time, ac curacy, throughput, and process measures. Discussion: The new CogScree n appears to be an appropriate device for the assessment of pilot cand idates, student pilots, and pilots.