Application of multiple resources theory in pilot selection

Principle of the Multiple Resources Theory of Attention was implied to design a PC based pilot selection device to test candidates cognitive capacities, with a tracking task as the first task, a balancing task as secondary task, and 6 third tasks. It was found that only performance with three tasks simultaneously may predict candidates' cognitive abilities of being pilots. Based on data collected from more than 400 subjects, weights of the performance of combinations of the tasks as parameters of a formula were decided.