If there is a mechanical problem with a plane, or a pilot is sick, then chances are the flight will be canceled.
There are also psychological tests which indicate whether or not a pilot would have problems about killing another person.
"The described technique cannot engage or control the aircraft's autopilot system using the (Flight Management System) or prevent a pilot from overriding the autopilot, " the FAA said.
These small planes, which can be controlled by a computer inside the vehicle or remotely by a pilot, are increasingly being used by the military to perform missions that may be considered too dangerous for humans, such as wartime reconnaissance or combat missions.
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They can participate for a semester or their entire college career in the Center, which the university has been testing out for two years or so in a pilot.
"While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin, " the union said in a statement.
Officers believe Fay has left the UK and may be seeking work as a pilot or flying instructor.
Of the 100 customers we talked to 73% are either running a pilot or actively evaluating the public cloud.
"It is a matter for the investigation to decide whether it was a pilot or air traffic control problem, all the circumstances will be investigated".
That was the dream she fastened onto, desperately wanting to be a pilot or astronaut at a time when few women could aspire to such roles.
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You do not have to be a pilot or airline executive to grasp the simple concept that the best time to fly is when a storm is not taking place.
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In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.
Nemeh Malek, director of the plane's owner, JR Executives, said the pilot had flown three or four times this week with a trained pilot, but was not licensed to fly without an instructor.
Discerning consumers will be able to call up competitive prices with a Palm Pilot or even their cell phones.
Nobody really knows what has happened to the vanished claimants: they might have moved to areas not covered by a pilot, or turned to crime.
"It is not standard practice or recommended procedure for a single pilot to read newspapers while operating an aircraft, " a spokesman for the trade group says.
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Here is an important thing to consider: when airlines cancel due to their own fault, such as a mechanical mishap or pilot scheduling screw up, they are liable for expenses their delayed passengers incur.
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And, in fact, a US pilot in an F-18 or F-15 would be presented with a greater challenge--by far--than anything the Iranians can present today.
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The result is "Cybervan, " a vehicle that can pilot itself on city streets without a driver or even remote piloting.
Channel 1 will take a month to decide whether or not to green-light a weekly series after viewing the pilot.
Or you could have been a commercial airline pilot, jetting around the globe to exotic destinations with a crew of able flight attendants.
Using ATOP, if a pilot requests an altitude or route change, the system loads the new information, based on the data transmission from the plane, calculates any possible conflicts and suggests responses from the controller automatically.
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By recognizing ourselves in fictional characters sent slaloming through the moral and ethical gates of life, we find our own repertoire of choices widened at those crucial moments when we, too, have to figure out what to do when a parent dies, a spouse deserts us, or the pilot gets on the PA system and advises us all to pray.
It takes a more determined president than Lula to pilot unpopular measures through a legislature where laws stand or fall on the whims of special interests, regional claques and a voracious demand for pork and patronage.
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He told the crowd that the tools also could be used to do things like change what's on a pilot's display screen or turn off the lights in the cockpit.
So bankruptcy declaration is a way to either renegotiate with pilot, mechanic, and flight attendant unions or force even harsher wage reductions through a court approved reorganization plan.
Players can choose to pilot vessels like a pirate ship or a Disney cruise ship through different interactive adventures.
Located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is a world first: a series of man-made tunnels 2, 150 feet underground, designed to accommodate radioactive waste.
California's XCOR Aerospace also is developing a reusable vehicle that will take a pilot and a front-seat customer to the edge of space -- for pleasure or to transport scientific payloads that would benefit from microgravity.
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