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The integration of automation has drastically changed the flight deck. In the 1970s and '80s, autopilots were primitive and required the constant attention of the pilots. Todays technology has improved a lot better. You can communicate a lot better
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There is lots of different flight schools that people can go to and fly different plains.
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Airline pilots make between $63,000-$200,000 a year. In the 1970's they got paid around 240 an hour.
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pilots are allowed to fly 30 ours a week.
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Pilots work at airports or at a base that the air force is assigned to.
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They work for 6 to eight hours a day
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Pilots are allowed to use cell phones and ipads
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They stay calm and keep doing wha they are doing until they can land some where near.
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Most airplanes will have a doctor on board just in case there is an emergency.
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some airports allow their pilots to listen to music.
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Pilots can go to sleep if there are pilots to take their places
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On many airplanes there are about 3 pilots but on commercial flights there is.
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90 degrees is the safest in american airlines
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They have a weather radar that can see through the clouds and can tell them what is in the sky?
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Yes there is different ranks for pilots
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Most takeoffs are done manually.
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Many of the professional flight engineers retired.
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Pilots are used to get people from one place to the other across the country. Back then they were mostly used in war like bomber plains and different types of pilots
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It is required to have 1500 hours within 2 years.
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On long flights they can eat but on short flights they might not have time
