Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) spokesperson Mohan Ranganathan said “If
25 percent of potential pilots have been red
flagged by psychologists, it is a serious
concern and should be looked into seriously”.
After the results were published, a group of
applicant pilots that were rejected, fired off a
letter to Air India executives in which they
indicated the psychological test was flawed and
not conducted properly. In the letter
the pilots wrote “A pilot cannot be judged in a
psychometric test in a span of 10 minutes and,
that too, via verbal communication. Without
conducting a proper psychometric test, how can a
doctor conclude that all the rejected candidates
are mentally unfit? If that is the case, then
can Air
India
explain how among the rejected candidates there
are some who have been selected to pilot Go Air
and Indigo Airlines.”
“If we were mentally unstable, then why grant us
medical certificate in the first place? Instead
of a written test or a detailed questionnaire,
the doctor just asked us random questions for 10
minutes and was scribbling notes the whole time,
without inquiring about any medical condition or
prior mental health history or checking our
records”.
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