Thread: how old is the youngest pilot at your airline
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Old 03-22-2014, 03:26 PM
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kb8018
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Originally Posted by Timbo View Post
Put yourself in for Tool of the Day!

The fighter guys in my class had about 1,200 TT, most of it day VFR in an empty pattern.

How landing a single engine jet on a boat qualifies you to fly passengers in/out of O'Hare in a blizzard is beyond me.

I know I'm pretty new around here, but this sort of ignorance annoys me....

"That's a lot to ask, even of a trained pilot. And the stress is evident. During the Vietnam War, Hubbard said, researchers attached sensors to pilots' bodies to see when they experienced the most anxiety during night missions over North Vietnam.
The highest readings were not when the pilots braved ground-to-air missiles or flew in areas patrolled by enemy aircraft. The greatest stress was when the pilots came home and tried to snag that cable."

We learn this in flight school, and here are the facts to back it up. That should probably sufficiently answer your question.

Blizzard in O'Hare < Dodging SAMs in Vietnam < Landing on the boat at night
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