Are You Safer Without A Pilot?

Airplanes are massive and very complex pieces of machinery, and they help us get to places more efficiently and cheaper than traditional ways. Although we have seen that if

There is a shortage in airline pilots which has caused delays long layovers, and late arrivals. This is in part due to the cost of becoming a pilot. Both government regulations and cost to the private individual and public option has choked the ability for individual to start on the journey of aviation. Garvey (2016) from the American pilot association also list these and other contributors in Aviation Week & Space Technology, p15-15. 1p. (Pilot Population—Commercial and Private—Dwindling) DUNS Number: 003251972

• A catastrophic industry crisis as 200 000 staff were cut in the world aviation industry.

Pilots need to be better understood because it is not fair to anyone to be assumed as something when you are not that.

A pilot has many responsibilities; for example, you must remain calm under pressure and have perfect vision, hearing, and coordination. The pilots must take safety steps before and after every flight such as reviewing the flight plans, communicating with air traffic control and keeping up to date with the weather and the flight conditions. While in

having come a long way from its storied Alaskan bush plane roots. Today, Alaska Airlines is the

Since the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s aircraft at Kitty Hawk, the development of new aircraft types and technology in these and existing aircraft has moved along at a quick and steady pace. Moreover, since 1903, aircraft limits continually have been pushed and surpassed. Aircraft now fly higher, faster, farther and carry more cargo or passengers than ever before. Nevertheless, it would only seem logical the next step in aviation evolution is removal of the human factor in flight. Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have

The responsibility of a commercial airline pilot is not only to get their passengers from

Just as important is the Training mission of completing transition and proficiency courses for all fleet pilots around the Coast Guard. As personnel numbers decrease and the flight schedules demands stay the same, there will be fewer maintainers on the hangar deck to complete scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. An average scheduled maintenance evolution will take significantly longer to complete. Eventually the number of flights will decrease as aircraft will be forced into unforeseen and lengthy maintenance cycles which will in turn not allow the flight schedule to be satisfied. Working with the operations department, we can plan for contingencies, but the fleet pilots will continue to arrive for their mandated training and potentially have extended training times as aircraft availability

First lets understand the roots of the pilot shortage issue. Before the 1990s most pilots had military backgrounds and the natural progression once they retired from the military was to work for a major mainline airline such as American or Delta Airlines. Previously the military was much larger and the amount of pilots coming out of the military replaced the amount of pilots who reached the age of 60 (mandatory retirement age at the time). But about 15 years after the military draft ended there was an increase of pilots who started

1. The purpose of this paper is to represent the position on why the United States Air Force (USAF) should bring Warrant Officers (WO) back into service to fly unmanned aircraft. First, a positive of having WOs would be to quickly fill the current manning shortage in the Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) community because more Airmen would qualify only needing a two year degrees. However, the current solution is to push more cadets through Officer Training School (OTS) to fly RPAs. This will fix the manning shortage over time while also fitting the current USAF structure. On the other hand, another positive of WOs flying RPAs in the USAF would be saving money. After an overview, one has to understand the current demographics of the USAF.

To be an airline pilot is most of the time described in terms of duties, job requirements, proficiency, training, employment opportunity, and good salary. These features picture a plain profile that fit into the specification of just an ordinary career. However, an aviation career comes with many challenges than expected. When focusing on statistics about being a pilot, it indicates a lifestyle that many inspire to work despite the many challenges that face this career. The challenges that pilot face revolve around being rested during long flights, performing unexpected, simultaneous tasks, and passing the medical examination in order to remain qualified. When combined with fatigue due to long flight hours, these different aspects can

If you have a love for the sky and aviation is one of your interests, you're not deterred from being in charge of at times more than 100 lives, and you have a soft spot for exploring the world than becoming an airline pilot is for you. Airline pilots have one of the coolest, most exciting nerve racking jobs out there. My goal for this paper is to explain all about how to become an airline pilot, what it takes to become one, the facts about the job, and some pros and cons of being in the field. My interest in flying was harbored as a child during vacations, my mother is a flight attendant so we traveled often. Whenever entering an airplane I was at awe of the sheer number of controls in the cockpit and the

Will pilots understand the toll maintenance can take on crew chiefs when aircraft break? All is fine now when you land, throw the keys to a contractor and say “she’s broke”. The next day the aircraft is magically ready to go. The unit is now missing some of the most important logistical aspects of an aviation unit—management of time, manpower, resources, and training. Contracts should be left to the basic logistical concepts such as production, training, transportation, etc.

Well we need test pilots to test the planes. If we didn't have test pilots to test newly developed planes how could anyone rely on the plane they were flying if they were not previously tested. Test pilots have a very important role when it comes to newly developed planes, if a newly developed plane got released to the Air forces without being tested, anything could go wrong, the hull of the plane could tear apart mid flight, the engines could fail at anytime during flight (even after testing), and the risk of death if there were no test pilots would increase by a lot. So if we did not have test pilots for the Air Forces flying new planes would be extremely risky and not worth it considering the high risk of death.