I am curious to read the reports...

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i have done worse landings with the gear down!!!

Yes

Maybe the next one can be here in Italy

I am sorry for your loss .....

Knowledge and a degree make you INDIPENDENT not smarter.
Good luck with everything your are going to do

We are still talking hours but i think the subject of the article was mostly on why someone should be a professional pilot today? what the industry is giving back to passionate individuals with money to invest? why someone should NOT go to law school and join a flight school?

Quality vs quantity part of the article is spot on i think. Pilots with less than 200 hr lands on ac carriers with intensive training, probably the answer is to have a system that allow to have higher skills and proffesionalism out od the school. These skills are more valuable to companies then have...

Interesting article from ATW magazine: http://atwonline.com/aeropolitics-regulation/article/losing-its-luster-0429 AS THE US GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS ADOPTING NEW pilot certification regulations in the aftermath of last year’s tragic Colgan Air Q400 crash that was blamed on pilot error, professionals in...

I am writing this post from across the globe and i am happy to read such incredible story! First, CONGRATULATIONS for your retirement, 42 years is a loooong carreer. Then i would like to congratulate because stories like ours are bacoming more rare. Meeting someone that did all his life what he drea...

I don't regret getting my license, it was a blast and i looooove flying. I regred doing it they way i did.... My family is not rich and i had to work my butt off to make the money and it looks like my job gave me a pretty good carreer. I am 37 now with a wife, a wonderful kid and a very good salary....

they actually ended up landing long on the runway, that would be interesting to simulate that with an instructor once...

Is 99% of avcanada unemployed or new-hire pilots? Cause this is getting tedious. Imagine you work somewhere else, like a bank. Do you have to be subservient? Well yes you do what your boss tells you to do. How about if you're an engineer? You fix what your boss tells you. How about if you're in sho...