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BIGAV8R 07-01-2011 12:43 PM

Maximum height in the majors
 
I am 6'9 1/2" and am wanting to fly for a major airline. Could anybody tell me if majors have a maximum height restriction and if so what is the height limit? I have searched everywhere online but can not find anything that has been to my help. Thank you

johnso29 07-01-2011 12:46 PM

There isn't one. That would be discrimination.

Pilot X 07-01-2011 12:47 PM


Originally Posted by BIGAV8R (Post 1016514)
I am 6'9 1/2" and am wanting to fly for a major airline. Could anybody tell me if majors have a maximum height restriction and if so what is the height limit? I have searched everywhere online but can not find anything that has been to my help. Thank you

you should play basketball instead, more stable of a job :D lockouts are like furloughs

threeighteen 07-01-2011 12:53 PM


Originally Posted by Pilot X (Post 1016517)
you should play basketball instead, more stable of a job :D lockouts are like furloughs

except you can still make $$$$ off of product endorsements!

Gomerglideslope 07-01-2011 09:45 PM


Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1016515)
There isn't one. That would be discrimination.


Discrimination?.....the Navy almost DQ'd me for being too tall, I don't think "discrimination" was a factor.

GBU-24 07-01-2011 09:48 PM

Is your name Fletch? Is that 6'9 1/2 with or without the afro?

d3c0y 07-01-2011 10:04 PM

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forgot to bid 07-01-2011 10:09 PM

The only discrimination will come from the rude cramped airplane cockpits. :D

I'm 6'5", I have fit in every cockpit and never found anyone who cared about height.

forgot to bid 07-01-2011 10:13 PM


Originally Posted by Gomerglideslope (Post 1016757)
Discrimination?.....the Navy almost DQ'd me for being too tall, I don't think "discrimination" was a factor.

But the military has the right to discriminate in a lot of ways, no? Plus you have to fit an ejection seat right? Flew with a Captain that twisted arms to "lose 2 inches" in sitting height when he was in the Navy so that could go fly jets. It worked out fine until the A-7 got a new seat and those "thingies" that broke the canopy were now below his helmet. So he finished out in A-4s.

full of luv 07-02-2011 01:27 AM


Originally Posted by BIGAV8R (Post 1016514)
I am 6'9 1/2" and am wanting to fly for a major airline. Could anybody tell me if majors have a maximum height restriction and if so what is the height limit? I have searched everywhere online but can not find anything that has been to my help. Thank you


I know 6'7" pilots at both Delta and AA. The major airline cockpits are a lot more comfortable than a biz jet for a tall pilot.


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