The plane took off from Slidell, Louisiana, en route to Sarasota, Florida, with a single pilot on board.
Everything the pilot needs is available at the touch of a button, which is something especially important for an aircraft approved for single pilot operations.
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"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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Designed to be easy to fly, the Excel is single-pilot certified and thus requires only one crew member, whereas competitive jets require two pilots.
Terry Fogarty, in charge of unmanned systems at Kaman, says that the single-pilot-manned K-MAX can be flown up to 12 hours a day on logging operations, requiring a change of pilots.
Next year in a few hundred pilot schools, single level tests will replace Sats in maths, though the government is moving cautiously in introducing the new tests.
Squadron leader Steve Long is the first RAF pilot to fly the single-seat plane.
It is no different from a pilot hopping into a single-propeller Cessna and attempting to fly to the moon.
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It brings both pilot groups under a single contract, and provides gains in compensation, work rules, job protections and retirement and other benefits, the union said.
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It recommended a pilot scheme to see how single-use instruments would work in practice.
Single stock circuit breakers are now in a pilot phase, but there have been glitches.
All it took for Davis, who last appeared on TV in 1985, was a look at the ABC pilot script: a big-city single woman who moves to the suburbs with her boyfriend and his two kids.
If approved, the new limit up-limit down mechanism would replace the existing single stock circuit breakers, which were approved on a pilot basis shortly after the market events of May 6, 2010.
The Pilatus PC12 is built in Switzerland and is a single-engine Turbo-Prop with 9 passenger seats, plus one pilot.
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Under a pilot scheme taking place in some parts of the country, a single assessment results in a cash allocation that is given to the user or their family directly - in the form of a personalised budget.
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In "Spore, " players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell--you cover the first 20 million years pretty quickly--to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape.
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