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That's actually quite true as there is additional pay for each day you're away from your home country/ home base. Depends on the airline itself. But the perks is that short haul actually allows you to in some cases earn your flight hours quicker to be promoted as captain earlier than the people...

Learjets are smaller privately owned aircraft that handles differently from big birds. Even an A320 would feel different due to the larger mass of the aircraft. Actually nowadays if you're O Level then there definitely will be some challenge to become a pilot. But if you get a Diploma for...

With all respects to the victims of the flight, please do not make assumptions about the competency of the flight crew as there is no evidence pointing towards pilot error. Based on my experience and knowledge it would be a maintenance procedure to the flight instrument that was not correctly...

Well then you haven't heard about new pilots in the USA being eligible for food subsidy stamps then. They pay so much for their training but their pay is so mediocre that they are probably eating last night's leftovers. That's why many of them are moving to Asia where there is demand in the...

It depends on which carrier u fly for and which route you take. Not all carriers pay the training fees for you. Programmes such as the SIA ab initio pilot programme pays for the pilots but however carriers like Cathay has stopped doing so. Budget airlines like Scoot do not open its doors to ab...

Very common misconception... 1. Planes do not have any kind of system that allows for an automatic takeoff. 100% of the time the takeoff is handled by the Pilot Flying (PF) of the flight manually. 2. Even though planes can land automatically with the guidance of the ILS, the is only used when...