To become an air traffic controller, a person must enroll in an FAA-approved education program and pass a pre-employment test that measures his or her ability to learn the controller's duties. Exceptions are air traffic controllers with prior experience and military veterans. The pre-employment test is currently offered only to students in the FAA Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative Program or the Minneapolis Community & Technical College, Air Traffic Control Training Program. The test is administered by computer and takes about 8 hours to complete. To take the test, an applicant must apply under an open advertisement for air traffic control positions and be chosen to take the examination. When there are many more applicants than available positions, applicants are selected to take the test through random selection. In addition to the pre-employment test, applicants must have 3 years of full-time work experience, have completed a full 4 years of college, or a combination of both. In combining education and experience, 1 year of undergraduate study-30 semester or 45 quarter hours-is equivalent to 9 months of work experience. Certain kinds of aviation experience also may be substituted for these requirements. Upon successful completion of an FAA-approved program, individuals who receive school recommendation, meet the basic qualification requirements (including being less than 31 years of age) in accordance with Federal law, and achieve a qualifying score on the FAA-authorized pre-employment test become eligible for employment as an air traffic controller. Candidates also must pass a medical exam, undergo drug screening, and obtain a security clearance before they can be hired. Upon selection, employees attend the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, OK, for 12 weeks of training, during which they learn the fundamentals of the airway system, FAA regulations, controller equipment, and aircraft performance characteristics, as well as more specialized tasks. After graduation, candidates assigned to an air traffic control facility are classified as "developmental controllers" until they complete all requirements to be certified for all of the air traffic control positions within a defined area of a given facility. Generally, it takes new controllers with only initial controller training between 2 and 4 years, depending on the facility and the availability of facility staff or contractors to provide on-the-job training, to complete all the certification requirements to become certified professional controllers. Individuals who have had prior controller experience normally take less time to become fully certified. Controllers who fail to complete either the academy or the on-the-job portion of the training usually are dismissed. Controllers must pass a physical examination each year and a job performance examination twice each year. Failure to become certified in any position at a facility within a specified time also may result in dismissal. Controllers also are subject to drug screening as a condition of continuing employment. Air traffic controllers must be articulate to give pilots directions quickly and clearly. Intelligence and a good memory also are important because controllers constantly receive information that they must immediately grasp, interpret, and remember. Decisiveness also is required because controllers often have to make quick decisions. The ability to concentrate is crucial because controllers must make these decisions in the midst of noise and other distractions. At airports, new controllers begin by supplying pilots with basic flight data and airport information. They then advance to the position of ground controller, then local controller, departure controller, and, finally, arrival controller. At an air route traffic control center, new controllers first deliver printed flight plans to teams, gradually advancing to radar associate controller and then radar controller. Controllers can transfer to jobs at different locations or advance to supervisory positions, including management or staff jobs, such as air traffic control data systems computer specialist, in air traffic control and top administrative jobs in the FAA. However, there are only limited opportunities for a controller to switch from a position in an enroute center to a tower.

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In the US, the FAA controls licensing of pilots. You can search for their pilot's license (a.k.a. their Airmen Certificate) on the FAA's website: https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/

Common to this is stealing, some FAs steal left over toiletries, soap, pillows, champagne bottles, foods on some of their flights. There was one incident of PAL they used to serve ice cream on cups, the flight usually don't take that long and passengers mostly don't eat ice cream during that time. So whenever the plane arrives, a box of left over ice creams will be marked as her own sending it back to its own destination, so the ground crews wouldn't touch the baggage. So when the particular FA arrives he will take the box as his own. Due to this PAL stopped serving ice cream in cups in all its flights.

If you are an airline manager/CEO, you will find it troublesome when FAs ask higher salaries, or you get to spen all their needs like hotel stays, airport services, clothes, shoes, cosmetic services, and even health whenever they got injured in a flight, or you get to pay their family huge amounts of benefits (usually starts in millions) due to a certain accident that killed a particular FA.

There is no job that is not good.

Whether the career choice is good for a particular person or not now depends on his long term goals for his life.

So, the truth is that becoming an Airline Pilot is a good career choice especially where the person concerned loves to fly.

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About 10 hours a day

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They wear a lot of protective gear. Typically they start with a heavy shoes or boots and a pair of comfortable coveralls. Over this they wear a G suit, designed to help them counteract the effects of high speed turns and maneuvers. A harness to connect into the ejection system is also worn, it may be incorporated into the G suit or separate. And a helmet with the electronics for communications, sun protection and the oxygen mask.

There is no interest in gender to be a pilot. However, more men are interested in physics, engineering, aerodynamic, aviation etc., and they recognized their goal earlier and started flying. In this decade, more and more women became pilots and proved there are no difference between.

It really depends on a number of variables...weather, time of year, location, funding, your ability to grasp all the concepts, etc. If the weather is perfect, you can avoid maintenance-related cancellations, get the required ground and flight instruction quickly, and don't fail anything, it'll run you around $3,000 to $6,000, or maybe more. The minimum Part 141 flight school requirement is 40 hours, but most people need more like 50 to 60 hours. So needless to say, it can get pretty pricey.

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There are 3 colleges in the UK. All can provide courses either for people wishing to work in the UK or internationally. One is run by NATS, which as well as providing courses commercially, train and employ their own controllers. Most self-sponsored students in the UK use one of the two smaller colleges, Cwmbran College run by BAE Systems in Wales, or Rudloe College near Cheltenham run by ASTAC Ltd. ASTAC has a second college near Brighton for international courses. All 3 colleges are overseen and meet the same licensing standards set by the CAA in the UK and ICAO for their international courses. www.nats.co.uk www.cwmbrancollege.com www.astac.co.uk

Around $100,000 a year

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is it 44,171 for a flight attendant at delta airlines.

It depends on what kind of airplane pilot we are talking about - most general aviation pilots use simple math to calculate weight and balance (multiplication and division), time and distance calculations, time zones (addition and subtraction) etc.

To be a professional airline pilot, most pilots are required to learn lower division calculus but will probably never use that information in the air, particularly with all the new computer technology.

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I have a private pilots license and am working on my instrument rating and attend an aviation college.

I don't know but when there are 600000 muslims in Canada, and 1 in 500 people work for Air Canada, that's maybe over 1000 muslim pilots. Of them maybe 20 or 30 of them are terrorists.

The reason I want to work for Air Canada in particular is to get my foot in the door, then eventually get a position where I can actually access the No-Fly database and snitch on those that seem suspicious so I could have them prosecuted by the federal authorities and have them where they belong.

I am serious....

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Victory to George W. Bush!

Suicide missions in aviation by Japanese pilots in World War 2 were deliberately flying their aircraft into a ship or another aircraft. The Japanese believed this was a high sign of bravery and loyalty to their country.

Good question. I've been flying for four years now. I passed exams through the Royal Aviation and assended from there. Anyway, a pilots hourly wage varies significantly depending on several factors ie, size of aircraft, which company, passenger or cargo, long haul etc. However, in general the larger the aircraft/ airline, the more your likely to earn respectively. A junior first officer flying a small Beech 1900 at a Midwest commuter airline earns as little as £10.00 an hour ($16.00) whereas the most senior captain at a major airline flying a Boeing 747 around £110 an hour ($178).

Annual income- a pilot employed with a small regional airline can expect to earn as little as £18.000 a year but if you fly for one of the major airlines you can expect £38.000 - £48.000 a year. If you are a 'long haul' pilot (England to Australia like myself, you may be looking at around £140.000 a year.

Note, it takes an awful lot of study and dedication to train in this fied ie, degree in maths and physics, and over 30000 hours of flying under close supervision but if you or anyone else were looking into persueing a career in this field, good luck.. its all worth it in the end!

For maximum utilization of scotopic vision( a vision of eye in low light), 20 to 30 minutes in total darkness are required to attain satisfactory retinal dark adaptation. An alternative is to have the aircrew member wear red goggles for 20 to 30 minutes before flying. When worn in normal illumination, red goggles will not interfere significantly with the ability to read most maps, charts, manuals, etc., as long as the printing is not in red ink. Red goggles block all light except red, which enhances rod dark adaptation because red light does not stimulate the scotopic system.

Yes, it is a very dangerous job. Your first miscalculation is usually your your last one.

if a fighter pilot pulls a really sharp turn the blood will try to pull away from his head, with the risk of him becoming unconscious. The g-suit compresses his body, making it easier for him to keep some blood in his brain and remain awake to fly the plane.

About 20,000 American spitfire pilots died in WW2.