When I was young I remember watching movies like top gun and remember thinking to myself, man that's is the best "job" ever. To be able to fly around in fighter jets all day, it's not really cosidered a job, because in part of how much fun it is. I always thought chicks dig the guy flying the stealth fighter jet, and its true (atleast in movies).
I always wanted to fly fighter jets for the milatary, with all the respect those guys get, the awesome equiptment they get fly, and some crazy manevers they get to perform. Obviously, milatry pilot will start off in basic training per milatary/air force requirements. It's very hard to find information online on becoming a fighter pilot, my guess after doing some research it you start off joing the air force, and pass the basic training that given. After that you would request to become a fighter pilot and go through some pretty rigorous training, both in the classroom and in the air. If the officer in command see's that you excel in both, then you have a good chance in becoming a fighter pilot. However the use of fighter pilots is becoming rare nowaday just because it seems everything the air force does is with the use of a pilot-less aircraft or a drone plane. Either way is an elite group of men and women that get to call themselves a fighter pilot.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Automation updated
I want to update my view on automation. At first, I didn't see the need for it, I thought it was a waste of money, now I think it's wonderful. In fact it could end up saving money. There's an article I saw about unmanned aircraft. Right now unmanned aircraft is being used by the milatary, so it's not too far of a wait. And it can't be done without automation
In this article, it says that Today, the U.S. military trains twice as many ground operators for its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as pilots for its military jets. Its UAVs started off by flying surveillance missions, then took on ground attack; now they are being readied to move cargo and evacuate wounded soldiers. And for commericial flight, automation has helped airlines; what started out as 5 pilots is now done to a pilot and co-pilot.
Do we even need those two? Many aviation experts think not. "A pilotless airliner is going to come; it's just a question of when," said James Albaugh, the president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airlines...Some problems have to be fixed first, Fully automated planes can't yet visually identify nearby planes, and as for the remotely piloted ones, the civilian variety can't communicate with ground stations, because they haven't got enough bandwidth.
One factor that's often cited for keeping a pilot in charge is what's known as shared fate. That's the reassurance passengers get from knowing that the human in the cockpit wants to live just as much as they do.
In this article, it says that Today, the U.S. military trains twice as many ground operators for its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as pilots for its military jets. Its UAVs started off by flying surveillance missions, then took on ground attack; now they are being readied to move cargo and evacuate wounded soldiers. And for commericial flight, automation has helped airlines; what started out as 5 pilots is now done to a pilot and co-pilot.
Do we even need those two? Many aviation experts think not. "A pilotless airliner is going to come; it's just a question of when," said James Albaugh, the president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airlines...Some problems have to be fixed first, Fully automated planes can't yet visually identify nearby planes, and as for the remotely piloted ones, the civilian variety can't communicate with ground stations, because they haven't got enough bandwidth.
One factor that's often cited for keeping a pilot in charge is what's known as shared fate. That's the reassurance passengers get from knowing that the human in the cockpit wants to live just as much as they do.
So this may be ancient history in a few years.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III "Sully"
The hero of the Hudson as he is called. Captain Sully is most known for saving all 155 people on board of the Airbus A320, after a birdstrike caused both engines to shut down, and thus forced landing in the Hudson river. Sully was the Captain of US airways flight 1549, which was on Janurary 15, 2009. Not only is Sully an influential person in aviation, but was also named TIME magazines top 100 most influential hero's and icon of 2009.
Sully's aviation career got off to an early start, by the age of 16 he had already learned to fly in a Aeronca 7DC. And at the age of 18 he enrolled at US Air Force. Sully was employed by US Airways from 1980 to 2010. In his new position with US Airways, sully is a manager pilot, in addition to flying for US Airways, he will join the safety team. During his 40 years of flying he has over 19,000 of flight time.
I believe Sully is influentian to aviation because not only did save the 155 people on board, but he also went infront of congress and flat out told them that its not easy now a days to become a pilot. In this article Sully and his copilot explain there pay has been cut big time, and the pension is long gone.This is an intresting quote from the Copilot Jeffrey B. Skiles, "unless federal laws are revised to improve labor-management relations experienced crews in the cockpit will be a thing of the past." And Sullenberger added that without experienced pilots "we will see negative consequences to the flying public."
Sullenberger himself has started a consulting business to help make ends meet. Skiles added, "For the last six years, I have worked seven days a week between my two jobs just to maintain a middle class standard of living."
Sully's aviation career got off to an early start, by the age of 16 he had already learned to fly in a Aeronca 7DC. And at the age of 18 he enrolled at US Air Force. Sully was employed by US Airways from 1980 to 2010. In his new position with US Airways, sully is a manager pilot, in addition to flying for US Airways, he will join the safety team. During his 40 years of flying he has over 19,000 of flight time.
I believe Sully is influentian to aviation because not only did save the 155 people on board, but he also went infront of congress and flat out told them that its not easy now a days to become a pilot. In this article Sully and his copilot explain there pay has been cut big time, and the pension is long gone.This is an intresting quote from the Copilot Jeffrey B. Skiles, "unless federal laws are revised to improve labor-management relations experienced crews in the cockpit will be a thing of the past." And Sullenberger added that without experienced pilots "we will see negative consequences to the flying public."
Sullenberger himself has started a consulting business to help make ends meet. Skiles added, "For the last six years, I have worked seven days a week between my two jobs just to maintain a middle class standard of living."
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
China's Airline Industry
What if I told you that China is projected to beat us in our own game. Yup, you heard me an article in aviation week said that China is projected to have the number 1 airline for commerical air travel by 2030. Statistics from the FAA show U.S. carriers had 704 million domestic and international passengers in 2009, and the forecast is for 1.21 billion by 2030. However, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has projected that Chinese carriers passenger numbers will increase from 230 million in 2009 to 700 million by 2020 and 1.5 billion by 2030.
Although China's internation airlines suffered last year, it's domestic travel still increased 22%, and is forecasted to be a growth of 17% this year.
There are 3 main state owned carriers in china, Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines. All three reported heavy losses in 2008, as higher fuel prices took their toll, but the government, knowing how important is to the indusrty responded with bailouts. The other airlines in China, either merged or shutdown.
Something intresting I read is that the Chinease government, not the airlines get to choose which aircraft to order for the airlines. I can see why alot of companies can fail because of that.
Similiar to what the American Aviation indusrty is waiting for; NEXTGEN, China is expected to get their own NEXTGEN, except they will get their's much sooner than the US. They are expected to open up its low altitude airspace completely in 2015 to encourage more flights from private jets. Boeing's own projection is that China will spend US$600 billion on 5,000 new planes in the next 20 years. And it is targeting to win at least half of these new aircraft orders. That is surely to create many jobs in China, as they will be looking to expand both domestically and internationally.
Although China's internation airlines suffered last year, it's domestic travel still increased 22%, and is forecasted to be a growth of 17% this year.
There are 3 main state owned carriers in china, Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines. All three reported heavy losses in 2008, as higher fuel prices took their toll, but the government, knowing how important is to the indusrty responded with bailouts. The other airlines in China, either merged or shutdown.
Something intresting I read is that the Chinease government, not the airlines get to choose which aircraft to order for the airlines. I can see why alot of companies can fail because of that.
Similiar to what the American Aviation indusrty is waiting for; NEXTGEN, China is expected to get their own NEXTGEN, except they will get their's much sooner than the US. They are expected to open up its low altitude airspace completely in 2015 to encourage more flights from private jets. Boeing's own projection is that China will spend US$600 billion on 5,000 new planes in the next 20 years. And it is targeting to win at least half of these new aircraft orders. That is surely to create many jobs in China, as they will be looking to expand both domestically and internationally.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
New Flight Charters
The corporate aviation company that I picked is New Flight Charters. A brief overview of the company is that it was founded in 2003 and flies under part 135 and operate under air carrier certificate CCJA746C. They fly a bunch of different aircraft from the Bombardier CRJ 200, to the King Air 100, to a Citation Mustang. All and all I counted over 65 different types of aircraft. The large cabin jets are from $4000-7000 per hour and the midsize jets are from $2,600-3800, the turboprops are a little cheaper and go from $950-1400 per hour.
New Flight Charters fly from large cities in the U.S like, L.A, San Francisco, South Florida, New York, and Chicago, just to name a few (you can choose over 4,000 places to take off from in the U.S). And they also guarantee the lowest price. I could not find specific job requirement, however they say that they are the most qualified and have 26 Years Chartering Experience, 32 Years FAA-Certified Aviation Experience, 83 Years Executive Management Experience, and 16,700 Hours Personal Flight Experience.
The President of the company is Rick Colson, and also they have three charter managers, Blake Smith, Nanette Poorman, and Michelle Murphy. They all are very experienced in aviation and some even have flight experience in big aircraft.
To be continued...
New Flight Charters fly from large cities in the U.S like, L.A, San Francisco, South Florida, New York, and Chicago, just to name a few (you can choose over 4,000 places to take off from in the U.S). And they also guarantee the lowest price. I could not find specific job requirement, however they say that they are the most qualified and have 26 Years Chartering Experience, 32 Years FAA-Certified Aviation Experience, 83 Years Executive Management Experience, and 16,700 Hours Personal Flight Experience.
The President of the company is Rick Colson, and also they have three charter managers, Blake Smith, Nanette Poorman, and Michelle Murphy. They all are very experienced in aviation and some even have flight experience in big aircraft.
To be continued...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
The new space economy
"The new space economy is getting real," when I heard these words, I was thinking of flying cars and the Jetsons flying through the air. Well, I was close, it turns out it was space travel. There is alot going on in space travel now..What we thought was taking place in the future is starting to take place now. In this article by SPACE, it says there are meetings taking place now to have Virgin Galactic fly the first tourist aboard commerical spaceships in just a few years. It's not bad if your rich (starting price is $200,000). If you choose to fly it may be in this:
NASA is also getting involved in space travel. They realize how realistic this has become within the past few years. On the NASA website Human space travel is getting ready to go beyond Earth's orbit. Imagine going to Mars or Jupiter, what was just a thought 20-30 years ago is now being planned for the future.
Speaking of NASA, they are the pioneer's for space travel, they sent a man to the moon, and have successfully gained much knowledge of outer space. This website explains the history of NASA, and goes to show how far we have come. It's gone from going to the moon in 1969 to trying to let everyone buy there way to see outer space.
In terms of aviation, I don't believe it will hurt pilots or managers, I see one as a nessecity and the other as a luxury. In some ways I see it opening careers for aeronatical engineers, because they get to design and build better performing space shuttle's.
NASA is also getting involved in space travel. They realize how realistic this has become within the past few years. On the NASA website Human space travel is getting ready to go beyond Earth's orbit. Imagine going to Mars or Jupiter, what was just a thought 20-30 years ago is now being planned for the future.
Speaking of NASA, they are the pioneer's for space travel, they sent a man to the moon, and have successfully gained much knowledge of outer space. This website explains the history of NASA, and goes to show how far we have come. It's gone from going to the moon in 1969 to trying to let everyone buy there way to see outer space.
In terms of aviation, I don't believe it will hurt pilots or managers, I see one as a nessecity and the other as a luxury. In some ways I see it opening careers for aeronatical engineers, because they get to design and build better performing space shuttle's.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
ETS Problems
The EU has said that all airlines flying into Europe must pay for the emissions which are not environmentally friendly. The problem is that no airlines, especially American carriers that fly in the EU airspace for about 1/8 of the trip want to pay. I have to say that to me it makes no sense, why would anyone want to pay. I can understand the EU's actions, but some of the rules they made, like any US carrier traveling to the EU would have to pay the EU for the entire trip, not just for the emissions going over the EU, but the entire trip, that's not the right solution, it's kind of greedy.
The conflict between the US and the EU is between money. The U.S has a bill that would protect American carriers from having to pay extra for flying in the EU. In the end I think the EU will backdown and leave it as it was.
In this article, the EU estimates that aviation will increase emissions by 130% in 2012 compared with 2005 when it was at 60%, they say it will cost them 3.5 billion euro's per year, which is why the EU is charging a fee. The EU will be charging every aircraft operator that fly's into or out of the EU, and they will follow their annual cycle; operators will require that aircract operators watch their own annual emissions, and file a report of it, and have it verified. Also airlines will have to write how they will lower their emissions...As if they didn't have enough to take of.
The conflict between the US and the EU is between money. The U.S has a bill that would protect American carriers from having to pay extra for flying in the EU. In the end I think the EU will backdown and leave it as it was.
In this article, the EU estimates that aviation will increase emissions by 130% in 2012 compared with 2005 when it was at 60%, they say it will cost them 3.5 billion euro's per year, which is why the EU is charging a fee. The EU will be charging every aircraft operator that fly's into or out of the EU, and they will follow their annual cycle; operators will require that aircract operators watch their own annual emissions, and file a report of it, and have it verified. Also airlines will have to write how they will lower their emissions...As if they didn't have enough to take of.
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