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Hi have a few random questions:

Is there any way you as a pilot can avoid having to deal with the pax/general public?

On any given airliner flight, how much non-luggage cargo is carried, and how much of a flight's revenue generally comes from cargo/mail?

With regards to logging time, do LSA's count the same as any other GA airplane?

Keep it real,

Mike

Is there any way you as a pilot can avoid having to deal with the pax/general public?

Sure! Fly cargo!

On any given airliner flight, how much non-luggage cargo is carried, and how much of a flight's revenue generally comes from cargo/mail?

This varies from company to company and the routes that you fly on. Some flights have very little cargo, while others may carry quite a bit of it, particularly mail. I know that UAL used to make quite a bit of money carrying pineapples and mail back to the mainland from Hawaii... more than they made in passenger revenues on the 747. Don't know if they still do.

With regards to logging time, do LSA's count the same as any other GA airplane?

I don't know of any airlines that have started differentiating LSA time. From a hiring standpoint, it's logged as total time, so it can't hurt you, but it may or may not help you.

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Originally Posted by MikeB525 (Post 344419)

On any given airliner flight, how much non-luggage cargo is carried, and how much of a flight's revenue generally comes from cargo/mail?

According to Kathleen M. Sweet, author Transportation and Cargo Security: Threats and Solutions, she puts the figure at about 4%-5% of an entire airlines revenue as the typical amount earned from cargo carried about passenger aircraft.

The piper cub is a normal aircraft which has trained countless civilian pilots. It is also within the weight/performance limits of LSA, and can be operated under LSA rules. There are also a variety of other normal category aircraft which would qualify. Smaller, cheaper airplanes have always been used as trainers. For this reason I'm sure LSA time would count for employment purposes.

Ultralights and gliders do not count as airplane time.

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Originally Posted by MikeB525 (Post 344419)

Hi have a few random questions:

Is there any way you as a pilot can avoid having to deal with the pax/general public?

Yea, as said earlier, fly freight or just keep the flight deck door closed. You can also just pretend you're deaf when walking through the terminal, it works really well when someone asks you where their gate is or something... I recommend discontinuing use of the deaf trick around hot ladies though... but that's a given anyway.

On any given airliner flight, how much non-luggage cargo is carried, and how much of a flight's revenue generally comes from cargo/mail?

Not sure, and frankly, I don't care... but I will add some insight. Carrying cargo/mail, whatever, widely depends on where you are flying to. International flights carry a lot more freight/mail than domestic runs do. Regional carriers, because of smaller jets, don't carry near as much of a cargo ratio as the major carriers do.

With regards to logging time, do LSA's count the same as any other GA airplane?

I believe it does, but check with a qualified LSA instructor or your local FSDO because I may be wrong. I haven't flown anything under 40,000 lbs in at least a year, so I'm way out of touch with that side of aviation.

Keep it real,

Will do home slice; I try to keep 'er as real as possible...

Mike

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