Research On Flight Training Stressors Of Civil Aviation Student Pilot

In order to make sure of the professional demand of physical and psychological quality, student pilots are selected to flight school strictly. However, in fact not everyone can finish their training; many student pilots are grounded because of their unqualified manipulating techniques and poor psychology states. The causes of psychological changes in student pilots may come from two aspects:one is their own physical and psychological problem, and the other is the negative effects produced by the surround people, training environment and life environment in colleges.In this paper, stressors in flight training were studied. We used literature review, semi-structured interview, and expert advice to explore the sources of stressors in the flight training of student pilots, and the results showed that stressors in colleges have eight dimensions:training environment-based stressors, training task-based stressors, flight instructor-based stressors, college environment-based stressors, training safety-based stressors, personal relationship and performance-based stressors, family factor-based stressors, future career development-based stressors. Stressors in flight training of civil aviation student pilots questionnaire was compiled based on these eight dimensions. Subjects were selected from five colleges of CAFUC, and student pilots graduated from foreign flight school. The finally results showed that stressors in the flight training of student pilot are mainly stem from four sources, which are college environment-based stressors, flight instructor-based stressors, future career development-based stressors and training environment-based stressors. The reliability of the questionnaire is 0.825, and the reliability of four factor aspects is ranged from 0.631 to 0.801. The correlation between four factor aspects and total questionnaire is ranged from 0.607 to 0.722, and the correlation between items and total questionnaire is ranged from 0.366 to 0.575. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the structure of four factors, and the results suggested that the structural equation model of four factors has a goodness with the data, and the construct validity was tested for a further verification. All these tests indicated that the questionnaire has a good reliability and validity.The differences of training phases on four stressor dimensions were explored. The results suggested that student pilots in different training have significant differences on four factor aspects. College environment-based stressors have a more remarkable effect on advanced trainer; flight instructor-based and future career-based stressors have a higher influence on primary trainer and advanced trainer than those on intermediate trainer; the training environment-based stressors have a more significant effect on primary trainer than those on advanced trainer and intermediate trainer. Differences of colleges on four factor aspects were also studied, and the results indicated that the flight instructor-based stressors and future career development-based stressors do not have significant differences on student pilots of different colleges. College environment-based stressors has a significantly lower influence on student pilots graduate from foreign flight school than those in Xinjin College, Luoyang College, Mianyang College; the effects of college environment-based stressors on student pilots in Luoyang College are obviously higher than those in Guanghan College and Mianyang College. The effects of college environment-based stressors and training environment-based stressors on student pilots in Xinjin College are significantly higher than Guanghan College. Finally, we propose some measures to manage the stressors.