Exactly my experience.
I've had the opportunity to know a few career pilots well, both personally and in my own profession. They would have made great engineers.
Calm, methodical, by-the-book folks you couldn't rattle or hurry. They could be fast, but not hurried. Definitely didn't make decisions based primarily on emotion, and then only when the book coincided with the emotion.
Would let the thought processes override the emotion, which becomes second nature for good ones, I think, by learning to fly on instruments in small planes. One has to rely upon the impersonal information coming from those dials, gauges and other displays rather than the screamingly loud warnings your own sensory inputs are supplying.
Arf