抄録
In order to investigate the changes in required psychological characteristics in pilots, we reviewed
the studies on the pilots’ opinions, which were conducted in 1968, 1998, and 2009. In all these
studies, the response rates for “sense of responsibility” and “calmness,” belonging to the category of
personality and intention, were found to rank high. The response rates for “flexibility” seemed to
rank higher in the studies of 1998 and 2009 than in the study of 1968. In the studies of 1998 and
2009, the response rates for “judgment,” “attention,” and “communication ability,” belonging to the
category of ability, were ranked high. These results suggest that the pilots’ opinions about required
psychological characteristics in pilots seemed to have hardly changed compared with about ten years
ago, but they seemed to have slightly changed compared with about forty years ago.
