"It's so beautiful seeing the meandering Hudson River, the Adirondacks to the north, the Green Mountains in Vermont and the Catskills to the south, " says pilot Greg Livadas, a Rochester, New York pilot who has been flying in the festival for more than 30 years.
"It'll just depend on how things pan out there with this bankruptcy, " says the pilot.
"We've been fortunate, " says the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Derek Horton.
The government says lessons will be learned from the pilot projects.
However, the department now says this pilot programme will start only in one area in April - Ashton-under-Lyne.
"We compete in the land of the giants, " says Jones, 56, a onetime fighter pilot for the Air Force who later spent 15 years coaxing Congress and the Pentagon to fund big-ticket Rockwell International programs like the B-1 bomber.
"It depends on the mission, but you'll always need to have that critical thinking capability in a pilot, " says Major Rod Secor of the U.S. Army's Unmanned Aircraft Systems division.
Not the National Security Agency, which is conducting a pilot of 100 Motorola smartphones running the Android OS that it says are already good enough for its employees to make top-secret and classified phone calls from the field.
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Cordier, the Air Force pilot who was tortured, says he still relies on his faith in God and country.
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.
Bob Buttram, the company's chief pilot, used to fly jets for commercial airlines, but he says this is some of the toughest flying he's ever done.
The Cirrus gang says it is wiser to try Aspen the first time with a knowledgeable co-pilot.
"That's aviation, " says airline pilot Patrick Smith of the aviation blog Askthepilot.com.
"The pilot showed conclusively what could be done, " says Ahmad Faruqui, a consultant with the Brattle Group in San Francisco, who advises utilities on the economics of smart grid technology.
"You're better off treating this information the way you would the pilot coming over the loudspeakers and saying 'Please fasten your safety belt, "' Mr. Stovall says.
Boston Symphony Orchestra trombonist (and later personnel manager) Bill Moyer says he remembers when Hobson Pilot joined the BSO.
Theatre companies cannot afford to be complacent, says Marcus Romer, artistic director of the Pilot Theatre Company in York.
Patrick Smith, a pilot and columnist for Salon.com, says the view of Greenland, with its creeping glaciers splintering into barren rock as you're coming in off the coast, is like no other.
Though Georgetown is still in a pilot phase, Russell says a statistics professor in the School of Foreign Service has tracked a steady rise in average grades among students since he began employing lecture capture.
"You could spend more on the pilot than what you'd save making the policy change, " says John Nienow, a senior logistics engineer.
"It was a pilot project and that was part of the complexity of it, " says Nancy Easterbrook, who spearheaded the Kittiwake project on behalf of the Cayman Islands Tourism Association.
There was no evidence "that pilot CEOs are harming shareholders, " says Mr. McKeon, the study's co-author.
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"It very quiet, it's very serene and peaceful, " says Larry Koch, a retired airline pilot who lives in the mountains above Malibu.
Ben Lyon, who runs Connect, a pilot project in south London, says that gang members particularly welcome the chance to meet victims' families.
"He will surprise you because he doesn't look like he's tough, " says Steve McPhail , a pilot and former vice president of the Southwest pilots' union.
"They're totally blind, " says Karen Lee , a veteran 747 pilot and manager of the Advanced Flight Systems division at UPS (nyse: UPS - news - people ).
Although the regionals often fly routes in agreements with larger carriers and are governed by the same safety rules, in practice, Mr. McGee says, the regionals often employ lesser standards for crew training, pilot training, and operations and maintenance.
"The public thinks we already have it, " says Robert Hilb , a UPS pilot.
His lawyer says he was following his dream to become a commercial pilot and the schools were cheap.
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