Posts Tagged ‘pilots’
FAA to issue rules aimed at tired airline pilots (AP)
AP – Nearly three years after the deadly crash of a regional airliner flown by two exhausted pilots, the Federal Aviation Administration is releasing rules aimed at preventing airline pilots from flying while dangerously fatigued.
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FAA study finds pilots rely on automated systems too much: report
Planes these days are so automated that pilots are beginning to forget the thing that got them into the cockpit in the first place – how to fly.
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TSA: Pilots to be exempt from intrusive screening (AP)
AP – Pilots are getting a break from going through the stepped-up and intrusive screening of airline passengers that is causing a growing outcry from the public.
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TSA: Pilots to be exempt from some airport checks (AP)
AP – The Transportation Security Administration has agreed to allow airline pilots to skip security scanning and pat-downs, pilot organizations said Friday. Pilots traveling in uniform on airline business will be allowed to pass security by presenting two photo IDs, one from their company and one from the government, to be checked against a secure flight crew database, officials at the pilot groups said.
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Pilots among those dismayed at scanners, pat-downs (AP)
AP – Airport security stops one airline pilot because he’s carrying a butter knife. Elsewhere, crews opt for pat-down searches because they fear low-level radiation from body scanners could be harmful. And in San Diego, one traveler is told he can’t fly at all when he likens an intrusive body search to sexual harassment.
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Missing pilots cast pall over balloon fiesta in US (AP)
AP – Hundreds of balloonists in New Mexico lifted off Saturday at dawn amid a somber mood, opening the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta while search crews on the other side of the globe scoured the seas for two of the sport’s most acclaimed pilots.
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Spirit Airlines pilots strike, stranding thousands (AP)
AP – A strike by Spirit Airlines pilots has shut down the discount carrier, stranding thousands of travelers.
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