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What distinct the successful employees versus the unsuccessful ones? How can you tell one is a top performer? It is definitely not only by the marks he got in the school.” Says the Head of Baltic Aviation Academy initial pilot training school (FTO) Indre Sveistryte and at once raises a question – ,,So why is it often forgotten while assessing students for the commercial pilot licence trainings?”

While industry goes measuring pilots’ efficiency on the fuel consumption and miles flown during the career, personal skills are often left in somewhere in-between, however they are the most important on how do humans behave in the critical situations.

“I would say a successful person is someone who knows what to do next”, says Indre Sveistryte. ,,No matter how bad the situation is, there is always a way out. But only the personal skills and stress management means how does the unexpected ends, and that is the most forgotten logics in the XXI century aviation.” 

The hygienic factors as age, physical status and theoretical knowledge is a must, however in the Baltic Aviation Academy Indre Sveistryte has gone further and created a commercial pilot competence model. After doing a research with 4 pilots and 4 first officers the model assessing top performers among the pilots was developed. While using profiling methods, what she counts to asses the students eager to get a Commercial pilots licence next to mandatory requirements is thinking and reasoning, behavioural traits and occupational interests, what all results in the job match percentage.  

With the first results presented in the International Conference on Flight Training and Aviation Education Conference held in Zilina on the 14th – 15th of September 2010, the model is being developed further. All that could contribute to faster changing the patterns of the pilots profiling and contribute to aviation safety, are very welcome share your ideas and experience via the email ideas@balticaa.com or at the website www.balticaa.com.

Over 2,000 professionals per year complete various training courses offered by the Baltic Aviation Academy, so there is a huge database for the further research.