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1) Imagine yourself, sitting, looking down a strip of concrete over a mile long and 75 feet wide. With a flick of your hand, you’re suddenly hurled down the concrete at close to 80 miles per hour. Nearing 100 miles per hour, another small hand movement brings you gently off of the ground, and you climb steadily into the sky. You turn around and see the white striped pavement disappearing rather quickly. While this scenario may seem spectacular to the average person, for an individual with a pilot’s license, it’s actually rather routine!
a) For most people, the closest they ever get to meeting a pilot is hearing the standard “this is your pilot speaking…” spiel over the intercom on an airliner. Because of this, the pilot’s actual role in flying a plane has been surrounded in a sort of mystique.
b) I plan today to better inform you of the duties of a pilot. I will examine the steps taken in a typical cross-country flight (one that’s more than 50 miles total (FARAIM p 463)) in a general aviation aircraft. While the procedure for commercial airliners diff
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d) Transition: Let us first take a look at the preflight and takeoff portion.
b) From there the pilot goes to a flight planning room.
b) The pilot is also changing settings on the plane and maneuvering it to line up with the runway.
(1) Airports usually have fuel services, restaurants, lounges, and pilot facilities.
c) As the plane is eased on to the runway, the flight itself has ended, but the job of the pilot has not.
i) During the post flight phase, the pilot taxis his plane to a preplanned area, depending on his intentions.
i) While most of theses facilities do have radar, general aviation aircraft are anonymous blips on the screen.
b) The pilot is constantly communication with airports whose airspace he is flying in and out of. While the scenario I described to you before sounded glamorous, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work that has to take place before the plane leaves the ground. ers due to the complexity of the planes, the basic procedures I will address today are still performed by even the most experienced airline captain.
iii) As a precaution, fuel levels are checked twice by hand, and the plane is given a final look-over. 29)
a) During this time the pilot is in rapid communication with the airport’s tower, positioning himself behind or in front of many planes to line up for landing.
iv) The pilot then has to call the briefer back to file a flight plan, which allows services like flight tracking and search and rescue to be initiated.
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