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| When our love is so strong for the splendorous skies, there should be rights or wrongs of aviation to be learned, as our love for the skies turn out to be our lives, the sages of airmen say that, there is no place in airmanship, neither for fickles nor cost of lives. All of flights destined for pre-planned airports, via the atmosphere's panoply of colors, or via pitch-black nights, or mother nature's bad temper, inherit chances of unforeseen and unpredictable contingencies. But fortunately and certainly, almost all of the flights busying the skies, round-the-clock, each day and night, are in good hands. In hands of excellent flight crew who always try to carry out their optimum brainstorming to fly the iron-birds home safely. This is a hypothesis that should be accepted as truth.. No way out.. Pilots are special and must remain special.. That is the reason, most of the Flight Schools around the world do their best to pick up the right guys to grant wings. They all know what they do. Consequently, they clearly refrain from a sole commercial viewpoint on selection and evaluation of future pilots. Everyone who is willing to fly as a pilot, can be a candidate. But nobody can promise aviation loving future aviators a definitive success of achieving the wings before proper trainings end. The progress of personal attitude, behavior and airmanship are of utmost importance not only throughout the initial training but also throughout the whole aviation career. It must be continuous. Any degradation in the process would most probably mark the end of a reckless aviator's career. Dead or Alive... Without prejudice, all candidates are trained, evaluated and selectively selected to be a pilot and/or a future commander. THE MAJOR ORIGINAL AIM OF AIR TRANSPORTATION OF ALL KIND NEVER CHANGES..That is to FLY HOME BUT SAFE.. Indeed, as it is said "PILOTS ARE JUST PLAIN PEOPLE WITH A SPECIAL AIR ABOUT THEM...And believe me pilots have the sprit of a mediaeval knight..That is so good, unless it causes kind of OVERCONFIDENCE, HUMILIATION OF OTHERS and/or MEGALOMANIA. MEGALOMANIA, that is what a pilot must clearly abstain from. By the way, while talking about a pilot, could I ask you what a "pilot" is ? What the literal meaning of the term "pilot" is? What had Orville Wright (1871-1948) and his bro Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) called (named) themselves when they had first flown in 1903? Whatever, but they certainly had not named themselves as "pilots" at the very beginning. Maritime transportation, simply sailing, boating, floating whatever means you name it, is much more older than airtransportation or simply put flying. A majority of the terms used in aviation and airtransportation comes from maritime transportation, old navies or some wise sailors. For example IAW Webster's, pilot's first meaning is " one employed to steer a ship: HELMSMAN". Succeeding meanings follow such as, GUIDE, LEADER and finally the fourthly meaning is explained as " one who handles or is qualified to handle the controls of an aircraft or spacecraft".. Reasonably the term of "pilot", actor as a guide, leader or conductor over a usually difficult course has been found pretty suitable term for the guys who perform such a challenging job of flying aircraft. Very simply put, while pilots behave as perfect guides, leaders and helmsmen of different kind of flyingcraft from light to heavy, they must also continue to possess the qualifications of leadership that certainly exclude megalomania. Remember, "the airmanship is the ethics of flying". By, Captain Uskent Airline Comdr & Aviation Author ATP/CFI. Airbus-310/300-200, Next Generation Boeing-737/800, Boeing-737/400-500, British Aerospace BAe-146/100-70, Challenger 601-3A, Learjet 60, Learjet 55C, Learjet-35A, Caravelle SE210, Grumman's S2E |
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FLYING THRU NATURE REFLECTS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF MANY PRACTICED ANONYMOUS COMMANDERS, CO-CAPTAINS, FIRST OFFICERS AND MANY OTHER AVIATORS. The links hereby include "MUST READ" informative articles. Their objective is to improve the aviation visions and knowledge of YOUNG AVIATORS / FUTURE PILOTS to enable them confront VITAL EMERGENCY CONDITIONS CONCURRENT WITH ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH ALL THAT POSSIBLE ADRENALINE IN THEIR BLOOD. ME AND MY CREW HEREBY, PINPOINT THE ESSENCES OF COMMANDING ALOFT, CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ULTIMATE SAFE RECOVERY OUT OF LURKING VITAL EMERGENCY SITUATIONS... |
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