Because they need to see where they are going. When you think about it they won't know what state or country they are without maps. Even the radars and such can't show them!
you pilot a plane
To fly a plane is the same as to pilot a plane.
A pilot of a plane needs the same license to fly a cargo plane as a pilot of a passenger plane.
A "Pilot" is a person who drives a plane.
Wind strength or wind speed is important to a pilot because it effect the pilot's ability control the plane while in flight, upon take off, upon final approach and upon landing.
A pilot is a man who drives a plane.
if you are talking about where a pilot sits in a plane he sits in what's called the cockpit
It provides communication with air traffic control centres along the plane's route. Without it - there would be no way to warn the pilot if there was another plane on a collision course, or if there was bad weather ahead, or if the plane was too low to fly over a mountain etc...
Pilot sits in the left seat seat in the cockpit near the nose of a plane.
Fly a plane. ;)
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