Today I"m going to explain to you how to become a major airline pilot. With the time I have up here I will explain the steps on how to make it to the top, from getting your pilots license, making your ratings and in the end getting your airline pilots license. ... You now have most of the rating except your ATP otherwise known as your Airline Transportation pilots" license. ... You now know how to get your private pilots license and all its certificates that follow to become a major airline pilot. ... Becoming a major airline pilot is not an easy route nor is it cheap, but this career is fa...

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Is it really as highly regarded as airline travelers think? ... This is because the airlines want to cut costs" (np). ... Another security measure under the scope right now is the possibility of arming pilots with guns. ... Sally Donnely, a writer for Time magazine, states in her article "Pilots Packing Heat" that "As confidence has waned in other efforts to enhance airline security, initial critics of cockpit guns are embracing them" (np). ... This security measure also involves both time and money through the purchase of guns and marksman training that pilots would have to go through. ...

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Flight 11 carrying 81 passengers, 9 flight attendants, and 2 pilots crashed into tower one of the world trade center. Flight 77 carrying 58 passengers, 4 flight attendants, and 2 pilots crashed into the Pentagon. ... American Airlines established a CARE program. ... The airline industry has many suppliers. Boeing is a major supplier of airplanes to American Airlines. ...

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In 1959 the FAA mandated, under the auspices of public safety, a regulation that requires the mandatory retirement of all commercial (part 121) airline pilots upon reaching the age of sixty. ... By 1958, about the time of transition from propeller to jet aircraft, a transition that cost millions of dollars in training costs, a number of airlines had established mandatory age 60 retirement rules for pilots. Among them, American Airlines and its CEO C. ... Opponents to the rule, such as Pilots Against Age Discrimination (PAAD) and the Professional Pilots Federation (PPF), claim that the rule i...

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The two goals of Cast are "to reduce the U.S. commercial aviation fatal accident rate by 80 percent over a 10-year period ending in 2007; and to work with airlines and international aviation organizations to reduce the worldwide commercial aviation fatal accident rate- (4). ... In an article titled "2002 Safety Upgrades Sparse But Affordable- (5), we see that CAST set forth a list of recommendations to the airline industry. ...

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For example, on October 17, 2007, a Cessna 208B, N430A, crashed and killed nine passengers along with the commercial pilot. ... Flying at this altitude, the pilot would be significantly impaired by hypoxia, but would have been aware of his impairment or not even educated about flight physiology. ... Chapter 3 - Prevention Strategies Because of recent alarming accidents in decompression, situation awareness, and CRM situations, the FAA has charged the airline industry to train pilots in flight physiology. ... This research was written in teaching and learning styles for the use of students, p...

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Other issues that go hand and hand with the Federal Air Marshal Program, to include cockpit door security and the arming of pilots will be discussed. ... Cockpit Door Security Pilots at US airlines have welcomed new standards, which are to be introduced for securing cockpit doors. ... Temporary measures, which saw deadbolts and crossbars installed on existing doors, were introduced by many airlines following the terrorist attacks of September. ... Airlines, which have not yet installed the locks and bolts in all their aircraft, must now do so within 45 days. The Airline Pilots Association, w...

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This Act put gave the Department of Commerce's Aeronautic Branch the responsibility to certify pilots and aircraft and make initial rules for the new industry (Boeing 2002). ... The Post Office was the first to regulate their pilots because they saw the importance of regulating merely for efficiency purposes. ... The Post Office didn't stop at that; they also examined the aircraft their pilots flew. ... MacCracken, the Bureau of Air Commerce oversaw the certification of pilots, registration and licensing of aircraft, and also the medical requirements and examinations for the pilot...

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This will keep pilots and ATC fluent with everyday procedures by continuous training and will keep ATC non-complacent in case of aircraft emergencies, microwave terrorism, or if computerized automation fails entirely. ... Once aircraft established position, the pilot then looked for Archie sitting under a windsock indicating wind direction for which direction to land. ... By the early 1930's radio entered the cockpit as a means of ATC with pilots and human schedulers on the ground. ... These new rules provided pilots with approaching traffic information and ground controllers used up ...

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