A degree is purely an easy way for an employer to test the waters of commitment. The airlines have been doing it for years and are only realising that there are many other ways of demonstrating commitment in the work place and therefore they are changing their own ways. I think the key is, relax and...

The industry is definately working in mysterious ways lately that's for sure. One thing to keep in mind is that a company sometimes has a logical explanation for their minimums that are posted. The Guys at AS tell me that the company is growing so fast (ie 4th jet approaching, 12 or 13th PC12 and a ...

BKN250 would constitute 5-7 octas of sky coverage, however only 4 octas of it are cirrus and the remaining octas are contrail coverage.

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Ref: TSB Special Report: American Airlines Flight 191 Air Disaster.com Here is the story of what happened on that blusterry Spring day in 1979. In command of flight 191 was Capt. Walter Lux, a 22,000 hour pilot who had flown the DC-10 nearly since its introduction eight years earlier. Assisting him...

I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the fact that this is the first post I personally have ever seen go to three pages and actually stay interesting and intellectual. Right on!!

Hey Brew. Stay out of my aircraft and I'll stay out of yours. Problem solved. However: Don't you think that throughout the greater than 10 years and over 1 million hours gained on the PC-12's that there would be a little bit of an oppurtunity for some stat gathering. In fact if you had taken the ti...

Sorry for the delayed response. Cat to answer your valid question about the amount of passengers that might eventually fit on single engine aircraft. As for right now the reliability of turbine engines far outweight the reliability of pistons. With the increasing cost of oil, there is definately a c...

Cat if you consider passion about ones beliefs to be arrogance then right back at you. To answer your question about an engine failure over the rocks. Well it would have to depend on whether I'm flying a twin that can mantain the MOCA as a single engine service ceiling or not. A J-31 at max weight i...

One thing that everybody has failed to mention in this stimulating debate is the fact that almost none of you had a choice of which kind of aircraft you are going to fly in the industry. If you target a company that pilots PC-12's or King Air's then you are going to grab anything you can get your sh...