Air force plans to modify pilot selection process

The People's Liberation Army air force will upgrade its pilot selection procedure, adding individual psychological tests and flight simulation to the country's strictest recruitment process, air force officials said.

"Compared with the current psychological tests that assess up to 40 candidates each time by projecting questions on the screen, the new platform can examine individual applicants through the tablet computer," Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Dong, deputy head of the PLA air force's pilot recruitment bureau, said at a news conference in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.

"The new method can avoid mutual distraction observed in the group tests and make the result more accurate and equitable," he added.